Recent content by VT Chicken Lady

Interesting & thank you so much for responding & with your input! I purchased all of our birds as day-old babies from McMurray Hatchery, so I may have made the poor assumption that I was getting pure bred birds, which was a straight run of the exotic chicks, but it looks like the consensus is...

Interesting & thank you so much for responding. I purchased all of our birds as day-old babies from McMurray Hatchery, so I may have made the poor assumption that I was getting pure bred birds, which was a straight run of the exotic chicks, but it looks like the consensus is that I have...

*silver-laced, not laces- typo!

Hey, all- I have a few cochins, but I am having a hard time determining what type they actually are- maybe someone can help here. I have one silver-laced cochin that is short, a total fluff-ball & very poofy (also broody for the past 2 weeks!) Here's my roo, who my 3 year old daughter named...

Thank you all so much for the replies. I left my chickens all together & the rooster that was doing the picking has stopped (for some weird reason he just did it that day) & the injured Roo's head is doing just fine; however, now the roo that was picking on the other one has begun picking on...

Looking for a bit of expert advise or even a "what I would do...". We have 12 hens (arucauna, RIReds, cochins, etc..) all that have been together since they came out of the shell (we started with 27, but the rest are in the freezer). The 2 roosters we kept (because they were too young for me...