I've posted in here before about our Diamond duchess & most said pullet.
Have 2 chickens both about 2.5 months old. We got the April 8, probably were about a week or so old.
But they are finding their voices & it has me worried shes actually a cockerel...
Comb is still very cream colored, not...
My BO is probably about 9-ish weeks.
When first getting wing feathers, had the 2 tiers of feathers (the w shape not straight line)
Just starting to get a Lil pink to her comb & waddle area.
Lighting isnt great bc its nighttime & these guys still like to have the red light on (they tell me all...
Wondering if this is a roo or hen.
Bought on April 8, probably a week or two old.
Likely 9-ish weeks old
Bit of a comb but still flesh colored
Spur buds (though many of my hens have them & even have an 8 year old hen with huge spurs)
Just not familiar with this breed & a few years back we...
I have a flock of 6. I have an EE named Sizlack who has always been top-ish in the pecking order & while sweet once you catch her, she never wants to be picked up so catching her is so so hard.
Last night, went down to close up the coop & she wasn't inside, just chilling outside. I go to pick...
So we have a coop with a run attached. All of which is inside a larger fenced in area. During the day the girls have the whole fenced in area (pretty huge space) to go about their chicken way. We have an attached run on our coop that I'm wondering if I could panel over the hard wire cloth to...
We have the sweetest 20 week old chicken that we've thought was a hen all this time, turns out he's a Sapphire Gem Male.
He is beautiful & sweet & gentle. He has not started crowing. We cannot keep him where we live.
We are in Holland Michigan. Free to a farm or family near west Michigan.
Ok, so I'm back posting about my chicken that was labeled as a sapphire blue rock hen....and clearly we've figured out she's either a barred rock or a mix...
But.....
Omg is she a ROOSTER??
She's 20 weeks. She's kinda awkward. Mild in temperament. Does not crow or bully. Does stand up kinda...
So when we got this girl, she was in the 'Sapphire Blue Plymouth Rock container at the farm store....but I think she looks way more like a regular Barred Plymouth rock. We had a Barred Plymouth Rock a while back & she was very obvious with her stripes. This one seems more speckled...could she be...
Last night was our younger chickens first night in the coop with the flock. We did a whole process, separated in the run for weeks, fully immersed with the flock in the run for over a month but sleeping in their small baby brooder. We had attempted to put them in the coop at night a couple times...
Hi! Who can help me figure out this sweetie girl? The place we got them said australorp (but the girl there seemed a bit frazzled & I didn't totally believe she knew the breeds when I was there)
Anyway, here are pics of her the day we got her, a couple weeks ago & then today.
I had a broody gal that I put in a "broody buster" for 2 days. Yesterday, I watched to see if she needed to go back in. She stayed out of the coop the whole day, except went in a bit early for bed. But while doing the usual chicken stuff, she was still fluffing up big & doing that broody...
Any advice what this might be?
They are hard/firm. I can sort of pluck it out, used tweezers to see if I could & it sort of squeezed out like a pimple but it is hard white. Sebaceous matter maybe?
I just treated all my girls for mites, so I was worried it might be an egg or something at...
I have an 8 month old Buff Orpington who has been laying for a couple months now. Always very consistent. Has a day off about once a week, lays all other days.
All of a sudden this week she hasn't laid. Her last egg was about 4 days ago, it was a huge egg (probably a double yolker) after a day...
So we had a wicked thunderstorm last night & this morning one of our girls was on the floor of the coop below their roost dead.
Little info, all healthy chickens doing great yesterday. About 7 months old. All laying great. No recent health or pecking order issues. Just happy hens.
We...
I'm a bit perplexed. Today for some reason my EE (top of order) started picking on my BR (bottom of order). I cannot figure out why.
I have 3 chickens, never a pecking order issue except when we lost one in the flock & it was just minor reestablishing positions. Otherwise they are all great...
So my top of the pecking order girl randomly today just decided to pick on our bottom of the order girl. I cannot figure out why. (Side question, could this be bc she's close to laying at all ?)
Well the picked on chicken is now holding 1 eye closed. When she opens it occasionally it looks just...
Hi so I heard a commotion out by my chickens & I went out and found one of mine with a good cut/tear by the base of their comb near the back. Don't know if she got pecked or got it caught on something.
Anyways, it wasn't too bad and my other 2 didn't seemake to even see it, couldn't see much...
Hey all.
So my girls are about 8 weeks old. In the last week, I've noticed random feathers on the ground here and there. Also some of the small soft fluffy ones being blown around. All the chickens look great, feathered really nicely, there are 4 of them and really get along well. There aren't...
Hey all. I have (4) 5 week old chickens & this is my first time raising chickens. Theyve been great & just moved out to the garage, coop in a few weeks.
Today i noticed my buff, penny lane, had a small spot of blood on the right side of her beak just below her nostril. Any thoughts on what it...