I have a one year old polish hen, yesterday we noticed she wasn't moving much and when we went by she went to get up but wouldn't use one of her legs really. She was kind of trying to stand on her "knucles" but not really putting weight on it. She had bumblefoot as a chick so we looked at her...
I have 7 pullets1 cockerel all 10-13 weeks. I want to add some year old hens who are already laying into the bunch. Besides the quarantine what other advice can you very knowledgable chicken keepers give me. I am wondering if it would be ok to add another 8 hens. Also the breeds avail are...
These ones are about 10-13 weeks old. I think they are suppose to be bantam brahmas..not sure. I think we unfortunatley have two boys..any help with breed and gender would be much appreciated.
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We got our asortment of chicks sunday including three silkes, one white and two buff. The breeder said they are around three weeks old. The two buff silkies are smaller then the white and one of them is as small as one of the 2 week old bantam chicks (TINY would fit in a 1/3 cup measurer I'm...
[/IMG]We just started a first flock and decided to go all mixed, mianly herritage breeds. I am wondering about two pairs we got..they were supposed to be Barred Rocks(bottom) and Partridge Rocks Bantams (top)..however I'm not sure..the "barred rock" chicks are brown..doesn't seem right lol Also...
We have just got our first bunch of chicks..we decided to go for a mixed flock of all straight run. I'm hoping to get some help on sexing them. We have 2 partridge rock bantams, 1 buff Orpington, 2 speckled Sussex, 2 columbium rocks, 2 barred rocks and 3 silkies all range from 1-3ish weeks old...