First time with these breeds. They are approximately 8-10 weeks old. Any thoughts on gender? I’ve had more practice with my wife’s silkies but my guess is 2 pullets and 1 roo
TLDR: I am pretty positive that this is a cockerel
I was hearing two crows and I rehomed a roo on the guise that I swear this guy is the other crower. My wife hasn't heard it because its not happening once I let them out of the coop. Still on the fairly young side.
We have a 10 day old chicks and within the second half of those 10 days, little guy was showing signs of some very bad leg formations. They were a chick that struggled to hatch and well past hatching day the chick was still in there and unable to get out. My wife slowly and carefully attempted...
Spike is a EDIT 4 month old Silkie, their fur has always been fairly wild and we believe they are frizzle. My wife is in the camp that it is not a rooster. I believe they are a rooster. Our rooster Red is very protective of Spike which is why my wife feels its a hen, but the growth on the...
After hatching a run split between silkies and ayem cemani from a local breeder, we collected some eggs to incubate from our collection. We have Easter eggers, RIR, Buff O, and Barred Rock hens. We also have silkies and show girls including the pair I will post. Anyone have experience breeding...
We are very excited today because our chicks starting hatching. We have Silkies, Naked Necks and Ayem Cemani eggs that are starting to poke through and wouldn't you know it, the Silver Wyandottes we ordered from Tractor Supply arrived safe and sound too!! Busy day!
I posted pictures of Spike about a week ago when it was snowing and he/she was looking matted. Here they are again dry. Their feathers are still a little crazy, but there is some even-ness to them so I am leaning towards pullet again.
This is Spike is definitely Silkie and roughly 3-5 months old. Took him in with Chip, who I posted last week. He's the only one that I think is a male but I could go either way. His/her feathers are a little matted because my wife just brought him in from the snow to dry him up so I took some...
So we purchased this shed from wayfair in the hope of turning it into a home for our chickens. Basically we have two small coops in a 12x10 fenced area. We are going to remove a panel in the fence and have the doors open into the fenced area so the chickens will actually GAIN space once we...
So we have a 5 gallon waterer with a trough tray ring attached. We got a drop in de-icer once the temperatures started to drop and the water in the in the base stays nice and fluid, but the small ringed trough is always frozen solid. What can I do to get water to the chickies?
So we have some guys that were born in March that are outside now. Exhibit A:
And we have these guys that are getting close. Exhibit B:
We have two seperate coops in the designated chicken area Exhibit C:
we have been putting out the little chickens in the brown coop during the daytime to...
I have 8 chickens ready to go outside and 6 chicks that are fairly young. I keep them on the main floor in our mud room.
I am not sure what’s going on but my house has seen so many spiders in my house. My daughter has even been bit and had neck pain for 3 days. (We took her to doctors and seems...
16x12 foot enclosed fence area with 2 coops. Outside of the area is surrounded by crude rockwall to prevent predators digging.
covered the top with chicken wire like a canopy. About 6ft 4 in height.