Is this mites or something else?? I flipped him over to trim his butt feathers as he hasn't been producing fertile eggs and was met with this shocking red tone. Nothing else about him seems amiss but this colour goes up his belly... His plumage is full and beautiful but his skin below is not.
10-11 ish weeks old
https://imgur.com/gallery/kNTPf
Pretty sure white is a pullet just golden and red/black who I'm leaning towards cockerels on. Bantys seem much trickier!
We ordered a mix of dual purpose chicks... Of the 26 I have 8 orange girls and I'm curious if we can tell which they may be of Red Sussex or Rhode Island Red yet?
They are two weeks old today. Here is a group shot.
Also.. Hoping for a cockerel even though we had to get all pullets as the...
26 ladies who will be 2 weeks old tomorrow (we think they're all pulleys.... Maybe a roo in the mix --- or a few!) all will be layers as far (as I am concerned) at this time!
I've been lurking and using BYC as a resource for the last month and figured it was time to make this official!
We ordered 25 (got 26!) chicks from Rochester Hatchery. We asked for pullets and one cockerel but they unfortunately were back ordered so we opted for just pullers. I am wondering if it's too early to tell if maybe we got an accidental rooster due to the 90% sexxing guarantee.
I will update...