Thanks. I'm very much a hobby chicken farmer. I guess I have even more roosters on the way than I thought. This is why I have a white crested polish named Phyllis Diller dontcha know? Appreciate the information. I'll definitely google it. And I did get my chicks from McMurray Hatchery so...
I think she is a pullet. I did get some cockerels out of this assortment, but they're already showing the tail feathers of a rooster and the hefty legs. She looks female to me and yes she's very colorful. I was amazed when I saw her in the sunlight today just how colorful she is which is why...
I think that's where I've posted the picture. I got these chicks June 2, 2014. So they probably hatched on the first of June. That would make her 4 months almost.
I love my Plymouths too. I'm in Michigan US. A weird thing you might have explained. I lost my Plymouths to a raccoon family under my barn last spring. The raccoons always seem to get them first. Maybe it is because they're so docile. Let me ask you something about Australorps. Mine are...
This is one of the pullets I got in my Feather Footed Fancy assortment from McMurray (which I love these cochins and langshans) I think I've got them all figured out (with the kind help of ya'll) except this one. She's always been different. As a baby she was brownish red and now she's going...
I saw an article about best chickens for Australia -- I have a friend who lives in Melbourne and it is super chicken (they call them "chooks")every family is allowed 10 hens. Anyway, from this article I read, now I think my hen is an Orpington. She looks exactly like the picture here...
I got her in an ornamental layer assortment from McMurray. I had two of them and even as day-old chicks they were bigger than all the others. Is Sex Link a breed? I guess I'm pretty ignorant about breeds of chickens.