ive got sussex crossed indian game cockerel, and i noticed wing feather differences in some, has anyone sexed them before im told they can be sex linked
other possiblities would be my decalb x wynadotte babys 'toes 'sweetpea and lavendar, but there small chickens, ive hatched their babys last year they come out small and game like, chipmunks and yellows too but normally alot smaller than these,
i hoped for sussex brama as last year normally...
no feather on any, even the brama eggs lol but this butt head has to be a brama as they are the only breed i know they looked like a butt head as pols,
i have chipmunks, and yellows,
i was told that when they have wing feathers big smal big small early on its a girl, and when there all even its...
i have indian game male and he has made chicks with a sussex and a bramah! is there anyway to tell chicks appart?
day 3 sofar and wings on 2 have black tips on yellow baby and chipmunk, look sux to me
and the other yellow turning gold like the bramah day 3 also has a butt head like a bramah, so...
she is placid, i can do anything with her,
i built her a dog house put it 5 ft away from the old ,
she went to the old and sat 1 time i carried her to the new home and she stayed now each day she gets down has herbreak and wait on a pitch for me to put her back, i changed her nest yesterday...
i have a broody and she is new to it a bramah, shes perfect sitting all day up 1 time clucking eat drink dust bath back on the eggs.
my other hens want her nest spot as its the fave, she wotn stop sitting on her and stressing her, but i dont want to remove her from the flock as reintergration...
out of 10 chickens all healthy 1 keeps laying a soft rubbery egg by the time i open to coop, and also a soft shelled egg with a long top sometimes,
strange thing is i have 9 girls and i am getting 1 rubber egg in the morning 9 normal eggs in the day and a weak shelled egg extra every odd day...
so i dont wana burn them but is says on here use hydrated lime for white washing coops and fence, so i type it and ti comes up with bnq hydrated lime for building, which we call quick lime, and on here says quick lime will burn them ?
mine are well behaved, i have 9 cockerels all happy never fight, softest bred in the world, gona make it hard come the day lol
they look like urs now, there 35 week, been on lower 18% protein, about to boost them now, as rabbits come in so they will be eating all the bunnies over the next...
i have 15 and i hope these 2 are girls, they have double feathers unlike the males under the wing there pale combs , but they turn red when food hunting or scared doesnt seem to have wattles like the other boy,
heres the pics the defo male is in the coop these are my 2 hope to be girls to go in...
thankyou for the reply, yes thats what i am going to do,
the other chicken that died yeah she had a really bad virus that wiped most my flock few years back, since she recovered when she poops she squeeks inside she was never right again but foundonline from the illness her insides was probably...
looking to treat vent gleet the welfare trust says to test for mareks if you have gleet and have a cockerel? as they say it could be herpes?
my cockerel died, he was old, think he got brain damage after a cat intruder freaked him out, he hit the roof,
he eldest girl just passed too she was...
could be mould spores in the crap there running on, hate seeing birds with no greens or real light :( poor things , sunlight disinfects and birds love it lights never are the same