Any guesses on the gender … I have two that are obviously Roos but the others are stumping me! They hatched early May late April can’t remember exact date. The black too is trying to mount but just one of them…. I’m afraid the rest are roosters!!!
I got this rooster from TSC last year, he was outside the bin and I told the lady to just throw him in with the others I was buying. I think he either came from the Prairie BlueBell bin or the Easter Egger Bin. I have eggs in the incubator and he’s the Rooster I used, trying to figure out what...
Last winter my hen hatched an egg from a BBS Blue Amerucauna Rooster and a Welsummer hen. The hatched hen started laying an Olive Green egg this spring but every other time it has speckles on it, is this possible? I’ve heard a hen lays the same egg each time so I’m confused, I have no other...
I have a Mystic Marans almost 5 months old that acted like she wanted to lay an egg and was in the nesting box all day yesterday. This morning she was in a nesting box, her comb is black, and she’s extremely lethargic. I put her in an epsom salt bath for about 20 minutes removed her and kept her...
I now have 2 roosters in my coop along with 14 hens. I introduced a young cockerel along with 5 hens over the summer. They all free ranged 90% of the time. The two flocks would free range together during the day and then go to their separate cops to roost. Eventually, I would take the younger...
I have 4 pullets ready to lay any day now. The last week I have gotten these 3 eggs which I know are from new layers, but is it the same pullet who laid all three or do I have a couple different new layers. I have a Welsummer, Blue Amerucauna, a BCM x EE cross and a Wheaten Maran x EE cross. Who...
I had a broody hen hatch six baby chicks on Sept 30th. The eggs were from a friend of a friend so I don’t know the breeds but she thought she had a Black Copper Marans Rooster. Anyways as I was watching them today I noticed that small of them have tail feathers and some don’t…. Some have large...
I have a hen who has been sitting on eggs for two days. She’s a great broody hen and mother. I swore I would never raise baby chicks again I would have her do it. Well I got super excited and ordered some Amerucauna baby chicks that are supposed to be arriving this Wednesday. I was wondering if...
This may be a stupid question but ....
Just wondering if there’s a way to remove heavy bloom from eggs. This is the same egg one pic is a wet egg the other pic is of the same egg dry. I think the wet egg is so much prettier than the dry one. Does a hen stop putting so much bloom eventually?
My hen hatched 4 baby chicks this weekend . I live in upstate NY where the temps are dipping to 30F and are going to get much colder. I have another hen that went broody and they should hatch in 2 weeks. This is my first time with chickens this year.... I I decided to get chicken during the...
I went out this morning to feed chickens and I had a hen that kept sitting on eggs and she has hatched three of them plus I think there’s more to hatch.... it’s 35 degrees tonight and I don’t have heat in my coop. What should I do? Do I leave them alone.... more them under a heat lamp? What do...
I went out to feed the chickens this morning and like always I check the nesting boxes. Typically I find the rare egg from an early layer, this morning I found two eggs in the same box. They look like they’ve been laid by the same chicken as they look alike.I’ve never seen an egg like this from...
Is it possible for a chicken to lay 2 eggs in one day? My white leghorn has been laying for about two weeks. She has laid me an egg every day except 2. Yesterday she didn’t lay an egg but today when I got home from work there were two white eggs in the best box. She is my only white egg...
I have a flock of 14 chickens, 3 are roosters. I have 2 Rhode Island Red hens, 2 Barred Rocks hens, 2 Black Copper Marans, 1 Easter Egger, 1 Buff Orpington, 1 Olive Egger, 1 Amberlink hen and 1 White Leghorn hen. I hatched a bunch of chickens and have given away several roosters already. I...
Someone gave me these two chickens and said they were white leghorns. Are they both leghorns? They look different so I’m wondering. Thanks for your replies in advance!
I bought and hatched some chicks and I’m concerned I hatched a bunch of Roos and bought some Roos that were supposed to be hens! Anyone want to take a guess?
Pic 1 is an Easter Egger bought at Blue Seal Feeds, I purchased on April 9th.
Pic 2 is an Easter Egger/Americauna I hatched on April 12th...
Hatched from a really dark egg that I was told was a black copper maran egg. So I’m thinking it’s a wheaten Maran. Does anyone have a guess on gender? Hatched April 21st
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I know I should wait but my excitement got the best of me and I decided to ask.... I hatched 6 Black Copper Maran eggs on the 20th and 21st of April. Five of the chickens are black and one was yellow ( which I was shocked and confused about but figured out after countless reading...