I have been searching through the forums looking for others with this problem, but I keep finding threads about hatching/incubating eggs.
My 5 hens have recently (a few weeks) begun laying consistently again. Several times I've found some blood smeared on the outside eggshell, and didn't...
So I was supposed to have 8 pullets, so naturally two of them turned out to be cockerals, Lady and Henri.
I found out Henri was no longer Henrietta pretty early on, and accepted it. He was the first one to attempt to crow, and did it three times that I knew of. Lady I found out several weeks...
Well, since it was more or less confirmed that one of our BR chicks is a roo, I figured we should get another pullet to "replace" that pullet spot, right? So I concocted a story that we needed to go to the feed store today since we were getting groceries nearby "just so we don't run out of...
After scouring the forum, I'm pretty sure my little Hot-Mess Henrietta is actually Hot-Mess Henry. I just need someone to tell me so I can call him/her the appropriate name.
The other two BRs have more black on their legs, significantly more feathers (even though one is about half of...
Okay, I couldn't resist getting my chicks from Orscheln's last night after a semi-local backyard breeder fell through on me (grr!), as I'd much rather buy from a breeder than buy puppy mill chicks, but I did anyway. So anyway, I got a couple of rhode island red, three barred rock, and the last...