i am sure somewhere on this site this question has been asked and more prob many times over: how and at what age can you tell pullet from cockerel. I have 3. 2 are 10-12wks old and the 3rd is maybe 6wks. Lady I got them from wasn't exactly sure. She in process of moving and kinda lost...
I have a bizzar question. I posted not long ago about my black Ameraucana drowning and being brought back. On the heels of that he molted and low and behold on his head is a crimson red feather. Now I wonder could it be from the stress to his body when he drowned like when people go through...
Last evening at dusk if found my 20 wk old Roo floating in my horse tough. I don't usually have more than a foot of water in it but we had gallons of rain yest and well...... I feel horrible. I did chicken CPR and did manage to revive him, Kept him in the house lastnight in a cat carrier on a...
Just got a black Ameraucana roo. I have a variety of hens. Barred rock, Speckled Sussex, Australorp, Buckeye, a questionable Partridge Rock and a red headed buff mutt. Anybody have a quess what I'll get from these crosses? What color variations?
I was given a couple of colored broilers the needed a home. I only keep chickens for eggs and family pets. can i expect eggs from them and can I eat them? Stupid questions I know but.........
I am in Denton, MD (Eastern Shore), anyone close by? And do you have chics/pullets to rehome/sell? For backyard family pets and of course "eggs", (yay). LOL.
Susie
So my chicken addiction has grown from "all I want is a couple hens for some eggs" to 2 Barred Rock hens, 2 Speckled Sussex hens, 1 RIR or Buckeye hen (arriving Mon), 2 RIRxSex links pullets and a Barred Rock Rooster. Obviously my numbers have outgrown my modified playhouse coop so I...
They are 5wks old by a RIR rooster and out of a supposedly a RIR hen. RIR rooster is only rooster they have and Most of the hens looked to be RIR but the "Mama" hen was lighter in color than the others with white in her wings. Also Roo or Pullet?
So I'm very new to having chickens. I have just gotten 2 4wk old chics that are supposed to be RIRs. I say supposed to be because one is white with red blotches and the other is very light reddish almost buff in color. Now I saw hen and rooster since they are my neighbors. Rooster is...
Hello from the Eastern Shore of Maryland,
My name is Susie and I'm a new chicken mom. We've been thinking of getting chickens for years and the opportunity presented itself about 3wks ago when a friend had 4 7wk old Bared Rocks she didn't want so I brought them home to the delight of my 6yr...