Hi all! This chick is feathering out so strangely. It was supposedly a prairie bluebell egger from Hoover’s. So I know since they are a mix that their coloring and things can vary, but this is the only one of the 7 feathering out with these big feathers on its legs like this. Prairie bluebell...
Hi all! I have 7, 10 week old chicks and 5 of them are cockerels. I also have 11 hens that are all laying and around a year old. The chicks were raised by a broody in the flock so they have grown up in this flock. Two of the cockerels I have noticed attempting to mate several of my Easter eggers...
Hi all! I was hoping someone could help me identify the most likely breeds that went into these 2 cockerels (9 weeks old). The one obviously has feathery legs and feet so I’m hoping that will help identify him. I know they are mixed but I got the eggs for my broody to hatch from someone who...
Hi all! I just went to collect eggs and I got this kind of strange one today. Have never seen anything like this before. The egg is kind of cream colored which is weird in itself since we have brown, white & green egg layers. Our silkie hen lays cream colored eggs but they are about half this...
Hi all! I finally got some decent pics this morning of all 7 of our barnyard mix chicks. They will be 7 weeks this Thursday/Friday. I am thinking only #2 & #4 are pullets, and that’s really mainly judging from comb/wattle development and color. I think all 5 others are cockerels. I think #1 has...
Hi all! My broody hen hatched out 7 chicks about 6.5 weeks ago and they are growing like weeds! Unfortunately 4, maybe 5, of the 7 are leaning towards cockerels. We want to keep one since we don’t currently have a rooster but I want to chose wisely. At what age will re-homing the extras be...
I don’t have any questions (for once!😜) I just wanted to share pics of our first broody hen hatch/chick raising journey! I have only been a crazy chicken lady for one year (almost exactly) but this has been the coolest thing to watch in our chicken owning journey so far! My EE hen Anna hatched 7...
Hi all! This is only my second post in this forum I believe but I would love to get more experienced people’s advice on my situation. I’ve currently got an Easter egger broody hen that has been sitting on 9 eggs since late evening of feb 19th so we’re already on day 17. She went broody in the...
Hi! This is my first post on backyard chickens! We started our first flock back at the beginning of April. We have 13 almost 10 week old chicks. 4 leghorns, 3 silkies & 6 Easter eggers. I was hoping i could get some insight on the gender of them. I’m 99% sure our leghorns are pullets based on...