One of my 20 week old pullets (who has not laid yet) has started to constantly be in "pushing out an egg" pose and I'm worried that maybe she has a blockage or she can't fit an egg out through her teeny body. She doesn't seem lethargic and is eating/drinking fine, but it's bizarre to see her...
My 13 week old polish cockerels head has been pecked at pretty bad. All his feathers in one spot are gone and there was some blood.We cleaned him off and taped some gauze around his head yesterday to try and stop the pecking, but it has since come off multiple times and his head doesn't look amy...
Hey guys! Looking for something to do, so if anybody wants me to put their chicken onto paper, I will do so for free! They're just little doodles in pencil, but they're pretty cute. Examples below:
I also paint in watercolor and acrylics, but that's way more effort, lol. I'll try my best to...
Posting a new thread to update: here are pictures of my 14 week old silkie "pullet" that I'm starting to think is a cockerel. I need help definitively determining gender because if he is a rooster I need to talk to the seller and replace him.. lol. Yeah I know that she has a single comb and...
White and grey frillback pet pigeon who needs a new home. Looking for a good home where he will be a companion pet or have a girlfriend in a nice loft. I cannot keep him as I have developed an allergy. Located near Olney MD but could ship at your expense. Can provide pictures too, just respond...
My bantam easter egger is about 9.5 weeks old now and I was confident she was a pullet before, but her comb is looking pretty pink and wide. I know easter eggers are difficult, but let me know your thoughts on this one!
Comb picture:
Here's one where she's facing the camera.
Hello all, we recently purchased a partridge silkie pullet to add to our bantam flock and I'm starting to doubt whether "she" is not a he. The seller couldn't give an exact age, but I'd guess around 10-12 weeks. It's also not a very well bred silkie, as it has a straight comb as opposed to the...
I have 2 5 week old white crested splash polish babies. They're supposed to be sexed pullets, but one is giving me suspicions... She's starting to get a slight pink tinge to her face and wattles. Her poof is still growing in so that might be why it's so spiky-looking, but her sister's looks more...
We have an almost 4 week old bantam mottled cochin which was sold to us from Meyer as a pullet, but I'm doubtful. She has had veeery slow feather growth and still has odd patchy wings, and recently her comb has started to grow a bit. It's only pinkened slightly, but you can see the starts of...
2 weeks ago we received an order of 8 chicks from Meyer Hatchery. We ordered a mottled cochin bantam, a bantam steele egger, a bantam easter egger, a bantam green queen, a bantam white crested black polish, 2 white crested splash polish, and the Meyer "meal maker". We've had some difficulty...
I have a few almost 5 week old chicks and the two I'm suspicious of are a Buff Orpington and a Sapphire Olive Egger. All were supposed to be sexed pullets but we know how Tractor Supply is (ha). The Sapphire Olive Egger I'm no longer as sus of as I used to be as she was the smallest chick in the...
hey, i just noticed this afternoon that one of my 4 week old easter egger chicks is acting weird: she keeps falling asleep standing up even when all of her siblings are running around, and most of the time she keeps her right eye closed. she also always has especially watery poops (none of the...
So we just got new chicks, 4 were shipped and arrived on Tuesday (one runty one did not make it.) We bought 4 more on Thursday from our local Tractor Supply, and we now have 7 active chicks. However, I have noticed excessive sneezing in most of the chicks, every 4-5 seconds they'll sneeze once...
unfortunately this morning a predator (likely a mink or weasel) got into the chicken run and killed 5 of our 6 chickens. we have one 4-5 month old pullet left who only suffered what appears to be two slight puncture wounds on her back (we've cleaned out the wounds and put an ointment on them, if...
hey all! we have 3 chicks that are now a little over 3 months old. one seems like a definite roo, one seems like a definite pullet, and one really confuses me. we were sold this chick as an easter egger pullet (which she may or may not be because the so called "black sex link" turned out to be a...
so we got the chick in question at tsc from a bin that was labeled "black sex link pullets", but the more she grows the more i think she's not a sex link, lol. she's now almost 2 weeks old, and she's huge, for one, considerably larger than our other two chicks (easter egger and cream legbar)...
not sure if this is the right place for this, but i wanted to ask about one of my hens. this isn't really a "new" issue or anything as the hen in question is 3 years old, but i wanted to know if there's something wrong with her or if she's just a little different. here's the hen in question- her...
hello, just got 4 baby chicks yesterday from the local tsc to add to our existing small flock of 3 three year old hens. one of the chicks seems a little odd- she walks funny (like waddling) which may be because she seems a little, well, wide. but she also keeps trying to get underneath the other...
So my flock has had quite the journey. We started with 2 ducklings for our backyard flock. They were with us for about 4 weeks and then both got taken by a fox. We were very sad, then upped the security of our pen and got six silkie chicks. 4 are roosters, and one of the girls died from a...
Ok, so my silkies are 10-12 weeks old (I believe; some are older than others) and i am still very confused on two of them. I have two i think are girls, two I think are boys, and two who confuse me. I will provide pics of all of them, but 1 and 2 are the girls, 3 and 4 are the boys, and 5 and 6...