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  1. Barred4Life

    Sexing 6 week old Easter Eggers - first timer needing help!

    So I got myself a few Easter Egger chicks 6 weeks ago and I've been reading up on how to sex them. I read about the comb...the males having 3 rows of bumps and the females 1. Also I read about the females having a more uniform colouring and the roos being more splotchy. So I have guessed the sex...
  2. Barred4Life

    Before and After photos of your funky chickens!

    I'm guilty...I love hatching out mixed birds! I never know what they will look like, and they seem to always come out unique and beautiful. I've been taking pictures of when they were chicks, and then when they are older. I find it interesting to see how they turn out. So, I thought it would...
  3. Barred4Life

    Can chickens hatch their first laid egg?

    I ask this question: Can chickens hatch their first laid egg (assuming it's fertile of course)? I can't seem to find an answer. I ask because I have some pullets that are becoming hens - that are just starting to lay their first eggs- and at the same time a mature hen that decided she wanted to...
  4. Barred4Life

    Is this molting?

    My rooster lost all his feathers...they are starting to grow back slowly, but I'm wondering if he's not sick. He's been looking like this for about 2 months now, shouldn't they have grown back by now? He was last years chick born in April, so haven't gone through a molt yet. Behavior wise he's...
  5. Barred4Life

    Day 22 - all of a sudden they decide to hatch!

    We had some rocking at day 20. Peeping at day 21. And boom, day 22 we have 9 new chicks. I'm thinking they're still some to come as there's new peeping. How long should I keep the eggs with no action in there? I was going to keep the chicks in there for 48 hours, then risk the rest of the eggs...
  6. Barred4Life

    First time candling...need feedback! (photos included)

    First time incubating eggs and I've been reading up on candling, but by lack of experience I've got questions. I'm only at day 5. I've managed to identify which ones are not fertile by the lack of veins inside ---so that much I've learned . Most of my eggs look alike, and I think they are...
  7. Barred4Life

    Bantam sex link?

    Recently acquired 2 lovely bantam hens. I have a lonely millefleur rooster looking for some hens his size, so I hooked him up. I know nothing about bantam as the rest of my flock is large birds. They lay off white colored eggs...kind of like a Barred Rock, beige or almost pink. The shells are...
  8. Barred4Life

    Rosecomb Rhode Island Reds ? (18 weeks)

    I see on here a lot of you know your stuff, so I was wondering if my two RIR, are actually RIR? They seem to have a rosecomb, they are dark mohagony red, and they have that 'wet' look on their feathers. The guy we bought our chicks from did have RIR and Buckeye...which I find very hard to tell...
  9. Barred4Life

    RIR - 13 weeks - Time to accept I got roosters!!??

    I had my doubts at first because I do not know much of the RIR, but all signs points to roosters. These are my 2 RIR, they are 13 weeks old. They both have rosecomb, they have those wet looking feathers growing in now, they have started growing green tailfeathers. They are the first ones to run...
  10. Barred4Life

    Mille Fleur D'Uccle

    We've just adopted a new rooster. We have 16 large birds (Barred Rock mostly) and decided we wanted to explore the bantams. We saw this adorable Mille Fleur d'Uccle who crowed his little heart out when we saw him, and just had to take him home! Since we know nothing about the breed I was looking...
  11. Barred4Life

    Integrating mature birds with 7 week old chicks

    We curently have 12, 7 week old chicks in our coop. We are looking into getting some mature birds (2 hens, 2 roos) so we can have eggs throughout the summer. We have a coop that has two separate pens to make the integration easier. We have the option of opening the two pens up to create one big...
  12. Barred4Life

    Rhode Island Red - Hen or Rooster?

    I tried to find the details about gender identification of young RIR on here, but can't, so I had to start a thread. I'm really curious to know if the 2 RIR I got are pullet or cockerel? Or better yet if they are RIR or red sex link? The chicks are just under 3 weeks. Any feedback, guesses...
  13. Barred4Life

    Barred Rock...Pullet or Cockerel?

    We just got ourselves our first 6 chicks...we don't know what we bought, but from what we can read online it seems like we got 3 hens and 3 roosters. Basically going by the colour of the feathers and head? I think it's too early to tell since they haven't fully grown into their feathers yet, but...
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