We have a broody hen and we dont need anymore chicks! So i was going to find some fertile goose and ducks eggs to put under her instead.
How long should I wait to add the ducks eggs under her with the goose eggs. I don't know what types of goose eggs yet, just trying to do some research.
Hope...
I removed the hens and am working on fixing the saddles (they keep flipping them over their heads! lol) We are selling 3 or the five roosters.. I think it is more that the roosters have the ones that they like more because our Australorp hen and our Barred rock hens have very little if any...
Here is 3 of our chipmunk ones from about 3 weeks up to today! But Chesnut is the one that looks like yours more.
Tiger
4 weeks old
Chesnut (lighter) and Tigers backs - 6 weeks
12 weeks
Chesnut
4 weeks
6 weeks
9 1/2 weeks
12 weeks
Birch
4 weeks
6 weeks
12 weeks...
Yea, Easter is almost the size of our full grown hens, Fluff is half the size of a full grown hen.
Fluff is a White Leghornx Buff Orpington
Easter is a RIR x Buff Orpington
(Didn't see the age the first time!) 15 weeks old? I say Pullet.... Our EE roo already has a bright red comb, and it is about 1/3 inch tall, he is 11ish weeks old.
We have a hen (We are positive lol) that has some curled tail feathers.. She is a Black Sex link pullet.
I don't see any pointy saddle feathers, I can't tell with the hackle feathers because of the pattern.
The thing is that their feathers help them stay warm/cool, and helps protect the hens backs from getting scratched up from the roosters... So the bare backs affects the hens too.
So awhile ago when they were 3ish weeks old I had a thread and asked if they were roosters... My answers were yes they are...
So they are now 13 weeks old... No pointy hackles or saddle feathers.. But they do have curled tail feathers, but so does our Black sex link pullet (at the bottom of...
You can get hen saddles, or make them out of fleece (there are patterns online).
Sometimes roosters have their favorite, which they like to mate with all the time.. We have a few hens with bare backs, They are Rhode Island Reds and Red sex links... But the roosters don't do that to the 3...