You´ll just have to freak them out! The more times you get them, the more they´ll get used to it. Night-time is a good time to catch them if it´s difficult. do what you want, then put them back on their perch.
You can tell if it´s something like scaley mite, as the scales on their legs lift...
Some of my chicks are feathering up. These are 7/8 Brahma. 2 of the chicks are normal buffs, but I found these other 3 quite pretty...
I´m looking forward to seeing how they are when they´re grown.
Living in the tropics, of course, our daylight hours aren´t quite as long nor quite as short as those places further from the equator, so here at the moment my chickens are laying like fury, and we´re getting about 13 or so hours of daylight, which is supposed to be the lower end for good...
I have hens that have slightly pointed feathers on their saddle area, but they´re wider, don´t grow long, thin and pointy like they do on a cockerel. Well, you know what saddle feathers are, your white cockerel has them. But if your bird´s been mounting the others, then that would certainly...
Just my 4penneth, but as we can´t see any saddle feathers (the light cockerel´s head being in the way), I´d say this looks very like a pullet. Maybe Barred Rock x Brahma? I used to have barred rocks, and the females would often have quite red wattles etc, but the one easy difference is that...
Oh, haha, I see. Shame about the little one.
Here in the house I have a gosling hatching under a desk lamp. Air humidity outside is 18! He´s already pipped, I´m wetting the membrane very regularly!
So sweet, you can see there´s a lot of Brahma in them! What´s the other 1/5th? I have some chicks that are 7/8ths Brahma, so sweet. The 1/8th part is Orpington.
They´re mixed-breed. I can´t help wondering if the breeder had leghorns and Plymouth Rocks there with his cochins/ brahmas. Pretty birds, though. And at least you should get some eggs from some of them.
Well, she´s essentially a Brahma, but the single comb shows she has a recent introduction of something else in her family line. Some folks use cochins to get the colours, etc, so could just be that.
@LadyBroody , If she were bred to a Brahma cock with a good comb, you´d be unlikely to see it...
Well, she´s essentially a Brahma, but the single comb shows she has a recent introduction of something else in her family line. Some folks use cochins to get the colours, etc, so could just be that.
@LadyBroody , If she were bred to a Brahma cock with a good comb, you´d be unlikely to see it...