We have 3 1/2 week old blue splash Marans. Today I noticed that one has a slighter larger and noticeably redder comb. I'm thinking it's a Roo and the other is a hen. What do you think? The grayer (blue) chick is the one I think is the Roo.
They're fast little buggers, so I have a hard time...
Checked on my broody mama this morning and one chick is hatching! She's sitting on 11 eggs and it is Day 22 today. Of course I was getting antsy (even though last year she hatched out 5 babies with no problem) and decided none were going to hatch and what was I going to do. We'd started with 12...
Our Barred Rock molted like usual this year, but now she has a tiny area on her butt that never filled back in. The skin is red like it is getting ready to sprout feathers and you can see the beginnings of a few pin feathers, but it seems strange that it hasn't filled in yet. She has one tiny...
One of my bantam japanese-old english game roos never grew a tail. He was pasty in the first week he was born, but I obviously got that cleared up. He would clean himself up and preen a lot after I'd wash off his bum and dry him. The area did look kind of calloused when he was still title and...
I wanted to say a quick hello from Raleigh, NC. We started raising chickens last October because I've always loved chickens and have collected tons of (fake) chickens for awhile. I met a man who kept backyard chickens and fell in love with the idea of having them myself. After convincing my...