I'm so very sorry for your loss. Thankfully it sounds like you have a supportive husband to help you through.
It's going to be a full on chicken mansion!
It's usually much easier to tell when they're older. I bet the reason people thought she was male was because she had larger comb. Some breeds have naturally large combs for both sexes (like legbars). The color of the comb is important, though. These two are still pale. If they were cockerels...
That's pretty cool. I really like that you can reach in instead of reaching over the top. Makes the chicks less skittish.
65 (even divided) might outgrow the pens pretty quickly but still pretty cool.
Are the reptile heat lamps safer than the regular hear lamps? I've always heard horror...
Well.... the Ancona now has a friend in the grow-out pen. My Special girl decided she wanted to sleep in the nest box (she never does that and her health is fine) so out of an abundance of caution, I put her in with the Ancona.
I've read that broodiness can be contagious!
I hope this little...
My gut says not to let her hatch. She's too all over the place. Switching boxes and sometimes roosting/sometimes staying in the nest box.
She's set up in the grow-out pen (Aka broody jail). I put her back in there early this morning. She seems super chill right now. Scratching for bugs...
Sapphire Gems should be sex linked. Both of yours have noticeable barring and big combs. They're cockerels. The Olive Egger looks female at this point but its a little young to confirm.