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    Chicken with naked spots on neck - why?

    My sweet chicken, Duchess, has had these naked spots on her neck for I wanna say about 2 months. They haven’t always been there. She’s about 5 months old, just started laying. I have no idea what’s causing them. The skin looks pink and healthy. There’s pin feathers coming in but the bald...
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    Polish: hen or roo?

    Desperately hoping this bird is a hen :fl Polish. 19 weeks old/4.5 months. Only just started showing wattles a couple weeks ago. No crowing. Fairly certain it’s a hen, but my rooster acts oddly towards this one - fluffing up and circling this one bird but neither of the other 2 I’m certain are...
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    One weak chick not growing

    I have 5 chicks right now, 3 of them are 3 weeks old and 2 of them are 2 weeks old. One of the younger ones is half the size of the others (including the one of the same age), not NEARLY as feathered out and lays down much more often. She otherwise eats, drinks and poops normally, just not as...
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    3 month Easter Egger - hen or rooster?

    This chicken was supposed to be a pullet - I bought it sexed from a hatchery March 4. But....it crowed this morning. This chicken is at the top of the pecking order though, so I'm still holding out hope that maybe it's just a crowing hen, which seems to be possible. Since it's an Easter Egger...
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    Pullet or cockerel? Columbian Wyondotte

    These guys are almost exactly 8 weeks old. It might be too early to tell. I was utterly convinced that one of these chickens was a rooster, which was okay, mostly because it's the sweetest, nicest one of the bunch. It got a bright red comb and started developing wattles before the other one, but...
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