Recent content by Joetothemo

Thanks for the feedback everyone. She took a day off yesterday but jumped up first thing in the AM and laid one between 5:30 and 7:30 am. Very proud of her! Now if all her little buddies could just learn from her example!

She is a sweetheart...and also a handful. She has needed to be rescued from the creek behind our home, the neighbor's garden and even with clipped wings, she has learned how to scale the hen house and jump to a tree branch (about 12' high). She's a lot of work, but our most fun and quirky girl.

My Golden Campine is 6 months and just figured out how to lay eggs. We are very excited. However everything I have read is that these birds are only supposed to be "moderate layers" around 150 eggs per year. She is laying every single day. Is it normal for a pullet to be a little overachiever...

If it puts you at ease, I have one that we are sure is a Rooster. 6 weeks old and look at his comb.

If it helps at all, it is our flightiest chick. (S)he loves to flutter around and has a nice temperament. Not the lead in the pecking order, somewhere in the middle.

I can't speak for the egg source. But the chick is 6 weeks in the perched photo. Maybe 4-5 weeks in the grazing photo

Any guesses on the breed. I figure Hen/Roo will become obvious one day. Breed, not so.

Hello All This bird came to us as a chick from my daughter's Kindergarten class. I know it is a very roosterly pose, but the normal posture is far more horizontal than this. Important to note, this chicken has a very obvious black pea comb, no sign of wattle, black beak, eyes, feathers, feet...

Hi guys My name is Joe. My family is new to chickens. Thanks to a Kindergarten egg-hatching project, we were gifted with 3 chickens (RI Red, Nakedneck, and ???). 2/3 are certainly roosters. The third is undetermined. We picked up several more chicks from the local Wilco and now have one hen...