Same thing here. My husband found the first egg in the coop tonight. We are pretty sure it is from the hen the kids call Merleah because she is an Ameraucana and it is a blue egg, bigger than those small chocolate eggs but smaller than a Cadbury's egg. Kids are excited of course and the...
These look like they could be the twin siblings of our 5-week old Polish. So how DO you tell cockerel from pullet for those that seem to be so sure of their gender ID on these chicks? What should we be looking for? Our other chicks were sold to us as pullets so we are assuming they are hens...