I am in a very similar position. I am a chicken newbie and one of my chicks sounds like she has the same injury on her right leg. It has been one week since I found her in the nesting box plucked over, beat down and covered in her droppings. I separated her into my old brooder tote. She is able...
I appreciate the input from all of you. How do you all know? What indicators do you use? I know #1 is a cockerel, but I can't say definitively about the others. They are still too young to look at saddle and hackle feathers for me. Thank you all.
I posted these images in another thread, but it was too confusing to follow the responses....so new thread. These chicks are just over seven weeks old. Please help me sex them.
My black star looks and acts like a cockerel. My other three spar but I still can't determine their sex. The black star is getting more aggressive, though, and has started to peck at the faces of the other chicks. I fear it is time for him to go. Any thoughts on sex of the other chicks? I...
I picked up four un-sexed chicks that were all born on May 13. Now that they are getting older one of them has exponentially longer tail feathers. This chick also has stout legs, but so do two of the other ones. The only one of the four that I am convinced is a pullet is my little barred...