My guess was leghorn pullet, but what I'm seeing posted here says may be cockerel by comb color? I do all the shelters wildlife and they know I have chickens and ducks so they called me to take it in. If I cant locate the owners ill have to rehome or keep. Cockerels are not allowed in our city...
Went out to the pen and this was floating in the pond. I know its a shelless egg but do i need to be concerned? One duck is unknown age afult and two started laying last fall. The size matches the oldest pekin but tge other two have been gaining size and uts water logged. (Iphone wont let me...
My girls lay on average an egg a day. That means I get six chicken and three duck eggs a day. Well I'm not going to eat that many so I give them to friends, the local fire department, the girls at the animal shelter, neighbors so they wont complain about the quacking etc...Normally I collect...
Transferred some wildlife to another rehabber today and she asked me if I would take a hen she had gotten from animal control. I said sure...whats one more?? This scraggly thing doesn't look at all like my girls did as pullets. It also sounds like a peacock when it screams and is very mouthy and...
Cleaned out the duck pond, went back to turn off the water and my older large Pekin female was on top of my young Cayuga female, tail motions and the works. I have three ducks, I get three eggs a day. The large Pekin was laying before we ever got other ducks. I was like...aliens took my girl and...
I was worried about my blacks but someone mentioned my reds might have a roo. Two red sex linked, small combs, light colored, full round feathers on tail. Hatched around 4-10-17.
From what I'm reading my sex links these should be girls and I should only worry about my RIRs. But the blacks have very pointy curved tail feathers. They do not have any barring or other traits than tail feathers. Hatched around 4-10-17.