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I had wondered before if she were a WL, if her being around other chicken breeds may have helped influence her behavior and temperament. She's in a mixed flock with a few other breeds, and all of them, for the most part, are pretty tame. They have all been handled and loved on since day 1. This...

You really think so? She's a pretty cool chicken, she's one of my favorites, usually one of the first ones to greet me, eats treats out of our hands, is more calm being held then one of our buff orpingtons.

I was just wanting to add some recent pictures of her, she is now 15 almost 16 weeks old. The past week or so her comb has grew so much and is turning more red, not as red as a couple of my other chickens, but its getting there. I'm still shocked by how fast her comb grew, it was almost as if it...

Well I'm still wanting them to continue sleeping in their current coop and just have the shed as a laying area, and in case I need to separate someone from the rest of the flock. I've been trying to make sure they are familiar with the shed, I keep it open during the day for them to go in and...

I know this is a bit of an odd question. I'm just wondering if chickens will lay eggs in a nesting box that is not inside their coop? Long story short, when we built our coop we didn't add nesting boxes and were just going to add/build them on closer to when they would be needed. Well time...

That's where I was looking online and the prices were almost double what I normally pay. I ended up finding the feed somewhere else local, it was still a bit more then I normally pay, but after thinking about it, I'd just rather pay a bit extra for the feed I know they do like instead of risking...

No, I know that almost all the brands is the usually the same as far as protein and the other ingredients. I'm just thinking maybe the nutrena naturewise has a different taste and maybe that's why they love it so much. I'm hoping to find something that may taste similar to them. I know the...

I have been feeding Nutrena Naturewise starter/grower feed. My chicks absolutely love it and there is a lot less waste with this feed compared to the store brand of feed I had originally fed them. My issue is that, whenever I go buy feed I usually have to ask employees to look in the back...

She does look like what Cyndi did when she was younger. Honestly, may have to wait until she's older to really know forsure what she is. When she's older, her body shape and egg color will help alot to identify what she is. Just out of curiosity, is she the same age as the other chicks in the...

You are absolutely right, I as well as my kiddos enjoy having chickens and plan to have them for years. When I first got them, I didn't realize how attached we would be to them.

Honestly, noise from a rooster really isn't a concern for me, I actually like a roosters crow and I doubt my neighbors would mind much. The biggest reason I haven't added a rooster to my flock is because of my concerns of aggression, I have kids and they are very involved with the chicks daily...

Do you have a recent picture of her? I could be wrong, but I don't think Amber links have black spots, I thought they were white with amber/orange coloration like the one in the picture you posted. California whites are supposed to have black spots. Smokey pearls is another that is white/off...

I'm still not 100% sure what my chick is, still either a leghorn or California white. Going by her personality and how calm she is, I'd say a California white. Regardless what she is, she is absolutely one of my favorites out of all of my chickens, if I ever figure out 100% what she is, I would...

I ended up not getting any rooster and am undecided if I will get one. I would have loved to have went with all barred rocks, but my kiddos had other breeds they were also wanting. I am hoping in a couple years to build a second coop and run with only barred rocks, but I'm wanting to get the...

I ended up not getting a rooster at all. I was originally wanting to eventually hatch some chicks but decided that if I wanted to get more chicks I'll just wait for one of mine to go broody and just buy a few chicks to put under her. So far my chicks (pullets) are doing just fine without a...

I wouldn't worry to much, based on your pictures it doesn't look like there is really that major of a difference. I have 2 buff orpingtons, 1 was always bigger then the other, feathered out better and all that. Now at almost 9 weeks I can almost barely tell them apart, they are now feathered out...

I don't have alot of advice since I'm still new to all of this, my chicks are 6 weeks, 5 weeks and 4 weeks old. I have the following chicks 2 Buff Orpingtons 2 Isa Browns (red sex links) 1 speckled sussex 1 silver laced Wyandotte 1 California white (supposed to be but still not 100% sure...

I agree with everyone else, definitely not a BO. I just saw another post, I'm not sure if I can find it again but I think it was in the "general breed discussions", someone posted chicks that looked very similar to yours and a few people commented and said they looked like buff brahmas. It's...

I'm just going by what I have read, and posts I've seen here on BYC saying that all CW including chicks have atleast 1 black spot on them, and that it's rare for them to not have spots and if several don't have spots they were most likely mislabeled, that is literally the only reason I thought...

I'm not sure if personality is a good way to determine a breed, but my chick isn't flighty and skittish so far. She seems to be brave (compared to my other chicks), very curious and I'd even say a leader because she is always the first to check out new stuff and try it out. Whatever she is, I do...