do chicks that get red combs at a young age ALWAYS turn out to be roos or does anyone have any experiance with them being pullets?
a friend of mine hatched some of my eggs for me, i have 7 chicks. 4 are 9 weeks and 3 are 8 weeks, only one of them has a small pale comb, 3 have small red combs and...
I have a 9(ish) month old amber star pullet who had been laying 4-6 eggs a week through-out winter, then two weeks ago she lays a soft egg - then nothing, not one! she wasnt moulting, not broody, so as you can imagine i was starting to worry she had something was wrong with her. but she was...
yesterday while cleaning out my silkie chicks cage i noticed that one of them was just standing in the corner hunched up in a ball with her eyes closed. i kept an eye on her for the remainder of the day, s/he has been moving around a little but very clumbsy as her eyes are still closed, i havent...
these are my day old chicks that a friend down the road hatched from my eggs for me. (more on the way next week)
pic of mum(s) & dad(S) the dads are mutts one female is a scruffy leghorn and i cant remember what breed the other female is.
also i had a couple of silkies from her, she...
hi, im completely new to chicken keeping, in fact 6 weeks ago i wasnt even aware people kept them as pets, my son told me that his friend a few doors down had some and insisted that we get some, so I looked them up on the internet & the more i read the more i wanted some to.
I got my chicks...