Recent content by l'abeille

Oh dear. My poor youngest daughter named those two. So sad that both welsummers are boys!

Hi, I have 2 Welsummer chicks showing a lot of comb development compared to their Golden sex-link and Delaware sisters. I'm not familiar with this breed. do these look like cockerels to those of you familiar with welsummers? They are from hathchery stock and were sexed, fyi. Thanks for your...

Thanks for helping! Here's more info: All hens have vibrant combs, clean, healthy plumage, beaks, legs and vents and are normal size for their breed with exceptions noted below. My hens have a 180 sqft sun/shade run they are in all day and are let into the garden several times a week to forage...

Thanks so much for responding! They are getting layer pellets from a local mill called Modesto Milling which most flocks in my area use and which I've always used. I've always put a light on my hens and they all lay through the winter, some as long as 6 years. I have had a flock for over a...

I have 6 hens. Two are 4 years, the rest hatched 2017. Only one is laying anymore. One Cuckoo Marans has seemed slow/sick and is getting fat. Last spring an Andalusian started walking like a runner duck and later died. I keep a light on them and usually get laying all winter in my mild climate...

i have 7 hens—2 are older and 5 were hatched last April. Two or three of the new ones won’t go in the coop at night. We have to try and catch them. One even got stacked by a possum and had to be rescued at 2 am. She stlll stays out. We have a well-ventilated lighted coop with roosting bars...

Here's photos of my gender mysteries. I'm not sure of the breeds, but I ordered from Murray McMurray. My order included cuckoo maran, black star, whiting true blue and "rare exotic" ancona and red star) hatched april17, so 4 weeks old chick 1 chick 2 chick 3

thank you!

what does it mean if a black sex link has barring on the wings? see the white barring? is this a male, then?

Here's photos of my gender mysteries. I'm not sure of the breeds, but I ordered from Murray McMurray. My order included cuckoo maran, black star, whiting true blue and "rare exotic" ancona and red star) hatched april17, so 4 weeks old chick 1 chick 2 chick 3

Here's another mystery... I ordered from Murray McMurray. My order included cuckoo maran, black star, whiting true blue and "rare exotic" (but i think I have a golden laced wyandotte as the exotic) ancona and red star) hatched april17, so 4 weeks old 4 pictures of the same chick...

I ordered from Murray McMurray. My order included cuckoo maran, black star, whiting true blue and "rare exotic" (but i think I have a golden laced wyandotte as the exotic) ancona and red star) hatched april17, so 4 weeks old 3 pictures of the same chick...

silver penciled rock is a possibility! i sadly can't keep a rooster but it's still fun to guess what breed he is.

i've ruled that out by the chick's chipmunk stripes. SLW look very distinctive as day olds. thanks for trying!

thank you!