I was out in the run when I noticed she was standing by herself. Both sides of her face are like this. She's wrapped in a towel because I gave her a bath so I could see better what was going on.
I just picked up these 3 chicks and their mom. Momma is a bantam cochin. Who knows what dad is, their were a lot of birds at the farm. Guesses are welcome. They are 2 or 3 weeks old, I think.
The black baby in he last photo is the only surviving chick from a mail order gone very wrong.
I purchased a real Ameraucana from Meyer hatchery. Pricey girl, came legbanded so I could identify her from the rest. All seemed well, but I just noticed that she's growing a couple feathers on her legs. Is she just poor bloodlines?
Sorry the pictures aren't the best she is not the...
Anyone want to guess the genders of these silkies with me as they grow? I'll come back every couple of weeks with new pictures and we can keep guessing.
They are 6-7 days old now. All arrived on Wednesday morning with some wing feathers coming in. The white the most, the black the least...
I got 4 mixed feathered legged bantams from Meyer. I'm pretty sure I know the gender of two, one of the others is a silkie so who even knows and then there is this one, that I keep going back and forth on. It's comb when it is calm is very pale but it brightens up right away when it gets...