We have Blue Boy, Col. Sanders, Roscoe, Dick, Skittles, and Nugget. Our hens are Two Toes ( because she has two broken tows on one foot that are bent at a 90), Pepper, Raven, Fancy, Boots(because she has random feathers on her feet), Dottie, Floppy, Thing1, Thing2 (twin hens), Goldie, and...
Hmmmm... I have never seen a red sex link as white as col. sanders but have thought nugget was one (although sold to me as a rir chick) and i think skittles is sadly a roo too. That chicken waits for me to pick it up everytime it sees me amd we have really bonded, but i cant have roos here. Now...
And i thought nugget was a roo when still in the brooder. Way more developed in thw comb then any of its brooder mates which turned out all pullet. Then it just seemed to stop. And i mean stop! It didnt seem to get any bigger or have any comb growth and now its starting to change a little by...
So from the look of things a for of my girls are boys and maybe a boy is really a girl....idk! Here are some photos of the ones im on the fence about. So far I havent SEEN anyone crowing however I have heard a few pittiful attempts. I also found bruce belting out what sounded like the egg song...
Ive had to deal with a bout of that a while back, but it seem to come on a bit slower then this. It was young chicks still in the brooder. This girl is also about a year old gice or take and I always thought younger birds were most likely to pick cocci up. She only had the real running bowl...
So we added 3 new BR hens to our current flock of young soon to lay girls. Turns out these 3 girls were swamped with mites and that was a total headache. We beat the mite issue and now I am battling something new with one of the hens. First off these 3 girls were "already laying" and we have...
Ok. Let me first say this is the first time I have ever had chickens so to say that I am "winging it" is more then just a cute pun! It is the straight up truth!! I know that birds are subject to an array of parasites, but I have (or at least I thought) I was being diligent by keeping them clean...