Recent content by tj74roberts

Just a suggestion which sounds like common sense, but make sure the batteries on their collars are in working order at all times. Speaking from experience, once they even get and inkling that the collar doesn't work they will make a run for it and could wreak all kinds of havoc.

Am I seeing saddle feathers in the first picture? Please post a side view.

Aww, me too! I will make time soon I promise. I love your chicken jewelry.

Well, I wish her the best. Hopefully, we can do it before she goes. I'm willing to help in anyway I can.

Have we come up with a new date yet? @KernH @sewandgrow

If he has the blue egg gene, yes. If not then it would depend on the hen I believe. I am not an expert on egg colors, sorry, I wish I was more help. Do you know what color his egg was that he hatched from?

Definitely a cockerel. The saddle feathers are the dead give away.

Oh, you're welcome. I know this whole chicken thing can be frustrating at times but it's totally worth it in the end. Do you have a broody breaker cage? It is an empty wire cage with no nesting material and just food and water? The air under her bottom for a few (5-7) days should break her of...

A beautiful Easter Egger pullet! Congrats!

at day 28, I'd say that this is a a case of non fertile eggs. No offense but I think you'd be gambling the health of a second bird for a lost cause. I'd get the current broody off of those duds, and make sure that her weight is good and take care of her since she has wasted so much energy on...

I'm guessing, purely on the shape of the crest, that this lil one is a cockerel. Again, I am no expert, but generally the pullets have a more rounded crest while the cockerels have a strange kind of punk rockerish type crest.

Perhaps a Silver Laced Wyandotte. Looking at the comb and the feather coloring and the shape of the bird

Oh, you're welcome. I love the names. Sometimes hatcheries and or farms stores get the birds wrong. And as for the easter egger with the scissor beak, I'm not sure how to help with that other than hand feeding to make sure that she eats good and give her scrambled eggs (no butter or salt) and...

also, Polish are not known to be bullies they are usually the ones being picked on

Just so you know, there are large fowl Polish and bantam Polish, so this could be the issue if you have all bantams your Polish could be a large fowl and therefore top dog and indeed a pullet not a roo