This is my barred rock, Gravel, I'm thinking roo but I have had multiple people on a facebook group tell me otherwise, let's settle this. He's very timid and at the bottom of the pecking order, I've always thought because he's younger than the majority of the hens, he also pays them no...
That would be so awesome if we only had one roo!
Here he is, he just conveniently walked right up on my deck right as you asked. Lol. He's a couple weeks younger.
This is Bandit, I'm pretty sure he's a cockerell but I have a barred rock that I'm 100% positive is a cockerell, so I'm holding out hope that Bandit is actually a pullet, can anyone confirm or deny if this is a valid hope?
This is Butterscotch, she knocked the lid off of their food container and climbed inside to help herself. Lol
This is Elpha. I was actually trying to take a picture of my chicken who's behind her, Calla, but she got in the way and I ended up with this picture instead.
Thanks for the advice, I'll just go with a leg band for identification, though I am determined to get a harness and train her to walk on a leash. Lol. Is there any way to attach my name and phone number to a leg band or a zip tie?
I would like to get a chicken harness for one of my chickens, Calla, but I'm looking for advice, what I'd like to do is put it on her and leave it on her so that I could tell her apart from the rest of the flock easier, she's an australorp so there isn't much variation physically between her and...
I think temperament probably varies by the individual, I have some 5 week old australorp chicks and Calla, the one on my avatar, doesn't leave me alone. If I take them out of their brooder to play outside she will just crawl right up into my lap and perch on my arm the entire time. We also have...
The younger ones are about 3 weeks. Our temperatures and weather fluctuate quite a bit, yesterday it was cool and drizzly, today it was 70 and sunny. I'm working on the coop, but it's still going to take another week atleast to get it up and secure, probably longer because I'm going to need more...
Okay, I went fishing for chicks and managed to get okay pictures of all of them in my lap (don't mind me in some of the pictures, this was a challenge.) The order is different than it was in the original post.
Number one
Number 2
Number 3
Australorp
Hopefully these work a...
The problem with turning off the heat lamp is that I have 3 younger chicks in there as well, plus there is no other source of light available in my garage, so they basically just sleep if I fon't give them the heat lamp for light, which is hilarious, but also kind of pitiful. Lol
I need a little help sexing my three delaware chicks and one of my australorps.
Delaware 1:
Delaware 2
Delaware 3:
All 3 Delawares:
Australorp:
I know they're terrible pictures because they're under a heat lamp and in a brooder so pictures are impossible, but hopefully someone can help...
Thank you all. I will be moving them to a bigger brooder today. It is summer here, and actually quite warm and sunny today, but my climate tends to be rather temperate and when it decides to rain it will, no matter the season.
I checked on my chicks today and found one of them wasn't running around like she usually does and when I picked her up I saw that her whole butt was missing all of it's feathers and it was bloody
I don't know what happened! I had to put her out of her misery and it was so sad. :( I have two...
needing a little advice; I have an old shed on my property which I previously used as a chicken coop but my chickens weren't laying, presumably because there isn't very much light, and there isn't much ventilation. It's completely metal except for half of the side facing their run, which is wood...