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Alice(Ancona) is still picking the Wyandotte's feathers. The apron I have on Ruby (GLW) has stayed on well enough to where he back pattern feathers are growing back nicely, but sometimes the back of the apron curls up and exposes her tail base, which is being plucked, along with her tail...

I got pinless peepers to put on our Ancona Alice who has been plucking my wyandotte's backs, so I put a pair on her and after putting her back in the run, she was instantly swarmed and Ruby(one of the wyandottes who has been plucked the worst) ripped them out of her nose. Should I try putting...

So I have no roosters, everyone is 18 weeks except for my 8 week old chicks which are in a separate pen in the run so the big ones can't touch them. Anyway, so my GLW Ruby looks really 'downy' on her back and sides and stuff, and my mom was concerned so I went to go check her out for...

So I see variations of this question, namely like, putting young chicks in with hens a couple years old or more, but my chicks are 9 weeks apart in age, my bigger ones being 13 weeks and my smaller ones being 4 weeks. I don't think my smaller ones are quite feathered all the way, so I'm giving...

I was looking at a thread of 3 week old cuckoo marans (https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/778555/is-three-weeks-too-early-to-sex-cuckoo-marans) and I can't tell if Kenna(currently my marans' name) looks more like the boys or the girls. S/he's sort of in between? If it's a girl, her name will...

I've been seeing that Cuckoo Marans can be sexed as young chicks by down colour+leg wash(?) +dot on head? I know nothing's set in stone or exact, especially when it comes to hatchery/feed store chicks. I just picked this little girl up today: She's probably a few days old. I shouldn't...

Had a hard time choosing, but went with a: Cuckoo Marans( Unnamed) An Easter Egger(Named Alana Bloom) And a Production/Rhode Island Red (Named Freddie Lounds) I was gonna get a polish, since they had them listed in, but they said they were supposed to get them that...

I have 6 nine week old chicks, but will be getting rid of the roo when he's big enough to be dinner, leaving me with 5 pullets. Anyway, our coop is almost finished and the nine weekers will be getting booted out of the brooder(if you want to call it that, it's basically just a cardboard pen now)...

So my 6 chicks (8.5 weeks old now) have been doing great, but the one we wanted the most for eggs turned out to be a boy! So poor little Pepper... sorry bubby, no roos allowed, even though you're my favourite and is a complete sweetie(also the most tamed).... he will be going to a friend for...

I thought it might be helpful/fun to post the growth progress of my 6 chicks; 5 pullets and 1 roo. They are 8 weeks old now, and the latest pics I have of them is the Tuesday before the Friday that is their 'week birthday', but anyway, enough chat, here are my chicks: Anna(Buff Orpington...

Okay, so I've always been confused on my chicks' ages because when they were younger and I'd compare them to other chicks on here, mine seemed to have been a lot more feathered out? All of mine have feathered about the same rate, and at 8 weeks old, look like mini adults. But when they were 5...

I posted pics of my chicks when they were 5.5 weeks old, and I was told my RIR is a rooster(I know he is definitely one), my ancona was a pullet, and people were leaning towards male on my GLW. Here are pics of everyone... I'm pretty certain my australorp, ancona, and SLW are females--- the BO...

Bought them at Wilco(feedstore local to PNW), and they had a 95% guarantee of being female, but one or two I suspect might not be girls.... Also, I've had them for 5 weeks, but I keep seeing other chickens who people say are 4-5 weeks and they are a lot less feathered? Size when I got them...

I really don't want to, but I've had the chicks for almost 4 weeks in my room and I am seeing a very visible later of dust on my desks and shelves lol.... I don't know if I'm ready to have them out of the house, so I was thinking I'd move them to our living room where the room is a LOT bigger...

I don't know what that's about except for the fact I gave them a plate of treats yesterday, one of them being a bunch of cut up spinach. I know Pepper is the piggiest of them all, always trying to eat all the food first, but none of the other chicks stink like rotting vegetables. It's actually a...

3 weeks ago today we drove through several inches of snow just to get to the feed store the morning they got their chicks in, and good thing we did, because they have been completely WIPED of their chicks ever since! But no more snow now and today we have sun and warmth, so I took my girls out...

I got my chicks on 2/7 and they are doing GREAT! You can see them growing overnight! Here's the intro pics from when I first got them. They might be older than 2 days in those pics, but I just randomly guessed. Itty bitty fuzz butts, all very soft and snuggly When I got...

My Gold Laced Wyandotte might just be a piggy, but I'm completely new to birds and chicks.... her crop is very large and full feeling... like I can feel the scratch in it and through her fuzz I can see it a little bit, like the indentions of it. She likes to just sit there and lay on my lap or...

First off, my chicks are getting so big after only three days! Lacey, my biggest(is currently snuggling into the back of my neck...) loves to use her wings whenever she can. She'll jump from my hand to my shoulder or to my head and she and many other chicks are starting to get their tail...

Hey guys, I'm playing with my chicks and my RIR loves my attention. She's currently snuggled in my hand asleep, but a few times she has rubbed/wiped her beak on my hand and on my face! I put my face down next to her and she came up, pecked at my glasses, then got real close to my face and rubbed...