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Thank you so much! These pictures are only a few days old but since then Chick B's comb has gotten a bit more red... So, probably both roos, but I will come back here to update - thank you!

It's almost 3 years later and in case someone was wondering: Yes, the first one is a pullet and her name is Apple Sweety Pie per my daughter. She lays beautiful brown eggs. Picture below from today :love The black one we gave back to the breeder under the strong assumption he's a boy.

Hi fellow chicken lovers! I would love to get some educated guesses on the genders of these two cuties. About 4.5 weeks old, Rhode Island Reds from Tractor Supply, straight run. They do a little sparring every now and then, but not sure if that's enough to say they're roos? Their legs look the...

Hi all, I wanted to post an update on Zaza. This Tuesday I found an egg from her!! It had to have been from her, since the other 4 chicks are 17 weeks old and nowhere near laying. She laid two more since then, so I'm hopeful that she'll go back to laying regularly :celebrate I wonder if this...

Thank you so much for taking the time to reply! Both your posts were very thoughtful and helpful! I didn't think it was harsh :) I am all for setting realistic expectations, and I guess I was just shocked at the thought of having to put her down much sooner than I thought. Also shocked that such...

Thank you both very much. Can you help me understand the situation with egg laying? Is it possible for her to lay eggs with this condition? She hasn't laid an egg in 7 weeks. It sounds like I should prevent her from laying (correct?), but she seems to want to lay eggs, she's often sitting in...

Oh my, that's more sobering than I hoped. She's so young! I was thinking to give one round of penicillin and a calcium supplement, but are you saying it's too late for that? If it is peritonitis, would her body still produce an egg everyday and basically add to the "yolk mess" in her abdomen...

Hi chicken lovers! We keep having problems with our hen Zaza, about 14 months old Barred Rock. She had a respiratory issue in early June (sneezing all the time) and I thought we cured whatever it was with one injection of Duramycin 72-200, the only thing I could get my hands on at the time. At...

Oh wow, so glad I asked! I guess this one can stay a bit longer. She wasn’t even on my radar since her comb grew quite fast when she was younger, and I had determined it’s a boy.

Okay, thank you! I'll look a little further up next time, I'm still new at this :cool: Probably wait until they go to sleep tonight - he/she was kicking and screaming! My husband said the voice sounded like a rooster. Is that a thing??

I hope I parted in the right area... It definitely put up a fight like my other cockerels. Can you explain what it should look like boy vs girl? There are smaller feathers budding, does the fact that they are there mean cockerel? Thanks!

Hey everyone, I'm ready to bring all cockerels from our May hatch back to the breeder and wanted to confirm that this 9 week old "breed unclear" is a cockerel? The feathers are growing in weird directions... Do you see hackle feathers? I think the back feathers still look too rounded, but the...

Here's an update at 9 weeks old! Thanks everyone for helping me guess, and hopefully these pictures might help someone, too! I'm pretty sure I have them figured out now. #1 is a pullet and #2 is a cockerel - Would you all agree? Chick 1 - Speckled Sussex: Chick 2 -

Perhaps Polish and Jersey Giant? Those are both on the breeder's list...

Zaza seems to be out of the woods... I did not do a second dose of antibiotics - should I? She behaves normally to me, except she hasn't laid an egg since Friday (so for 6 days now). Is it normal that egg laying takes a while to pick back up? (I know we can't eat the eggs anyway at first due to...