Around what age do these cuties start to crow if they're a roo? We have three that are around 10 weeks old. We think 2 are pullets and 1 roo. The "boy" has a big red comb and wattles. He also has by bigger legs/feet. Just waiting to possibly hear a crow.
We live in Oklahoma, and the summer weather is starting to get very hot and humid. We have 3 chicks around 8 weeks old in our coop outside. How are they in hot weather? Should we be doing anything particular to keep them cool? One was walking around yesterday with his mouth open and breathing...
We live in Oklahoma, and the summer weather is starting to get very hot and humid. We have 3 chicks around 8 weeks old in our coop outside. How are they in hot weather? Should we be doing anything particular to keep them cool? One was walking around yesterday with his mouth open and breathing...
We live in Oklahoma, and the summer weather is starting to get very hot and humid. We have 3 chicks around 8 weeks old in our coop outside. How are they in hot weather? Should we be doing anything particular to keep them cool? One was walking around yesterday with his mouth open and breathing...
We have 3 blue laced red wyandotte chicks that are about 7 weeks old. We still have no clue if we have roos or pullets. This little chick all of a sudden grew wattles. We have another one with a redder comb but less wattles. Any ideas as to if Wattles is a roo or pullet? Sorry for all the pics...
I got home from work this morning and the electricity went out! Our 4 chicks are slow growing 4/5 week olds. They are also recovering from cocci, we lost 2 chicks the other night :(
Anyways I couldn't let them struggle anymore the necessary, so I dug the generator out of the shop to keep the...
So we have two blue laced red wyandotte chicks that have bumpy combs. Our other 4 have smooth combs. We are brand new to this and have no idea the sex of any of our chicks. They are about 4-5 weeks old we're guessing. Any help???????
Here are our blue laced red splash wyandottes. We're guessing they're about 2 1/2 weeks old. Don't know the sex of any of them yet. That's Little Foot in the middle of the first pic, it's our biggest one so far.
This is Little Foot, our biggest chick. And Max sniffing Little Foot out for...
We got our very first group of chicks, 6 Blue laced red splash wyandottes. The chicken tractor is a work in progress. Hopefully it'll be done in time.
A couple questions:
Chicks ate a ton of food the first day we got them 3 days ago. But now they are eating much less. How much should 6 chicks...