This is Gertrude. 17 weeks old. This last week those wattles have grown and become super red. Plus I am new but think I may see Saddle feathers? Anyone ?
I have a 16 week old gold sex link. She has been squatting for a couple days. I got home from work and she was not outside playing with the rest of the little pullets. I opened the coop could not see her.. Opened the nesting boxes and she was in there. She stayed there for an hour. Then she got...
Well I should start out by saying, NEVER ever put a fly strip in your coop no matter how high it is a chicken will get at it to get the bugs. UGH, Poor chicken had the fly stip stuck to her wing. Luckily they are made to catch flies not chickens so it came off easy enough.
Today we shoveled...
This is our Coop. I could have posted start to finish pics but there would have been a ton more. The coop is 8ft by 4 ft. The secure run for when we are not home is 9 by 4. We have now added a grazing run that we can move that is about 6 foot by 12 foot. I cant believe I actually helped make...
Buff Chochin 9-10 weeks
Danish Brown Leghorn 8-9 weeks
Silver Laced Wyandotte 8-9 weeks
Buff Orpington 7-8 weeks
My gut says all girls.. I have 8 chickens but the other are sex linked.. gold and black :) So hopefully they are girls but I worry less about the sex links :) Thanks for any...
Hey. Im Destini mother to 8 (hopefully) hens. I have 2 gold sex linked, 2 black sex linked,1 silver-laced wyandotte, 1 buff cochin, 1 buff orpington, and one danish brown leghorn, They range in age from 9-10 weeks as of today :) I am happy to be here and learn as much as I can :)