They are around 10 weeks now so I took some updated photos of the polish. Someone said if it was a rooster it would start crowing around 6 weeks? But google says crowing can take up to a year. Last time people were leaning towards Rooster, but the pom is still pretty even and online says it...
We have a 4 week and a couple days White Crest Black Polish Bantam and I am checking to see if she is a she. I think she is because her round pom pom crest, and I don't see any waddles coming in, but she is bigger than my other cochin bantams so I started second guessing myself. The feathers...
We finished the new coop for the most part. We do have four circular 3” vents to put in the front and back gables. We also have some 4” rubber molding to put around the bottom interior and nesting box curtains to put up, but we got it done enough for the girls to move in. We insulated their coop...
We purchased these plans to build a forever coop, but it does not include ventilation other than the 2 windows. We already changed the two small windows so one 30x24 window so we can add ventilation along the roof line on either side of the window, and we plan on running ventilation along the...
(1) Are you new to chickens / when did you first get chickens?
We purchased six day old chicks back in February for a May delivery. We lost one in transit and picked up a Blue Cochin baby from Theisen’s to make up our six allowance.
(2) How many chickens do you have right now? We currently have...
Hello All!
This year is our first year with chickens. I spent 2 years researching and reading books before I even ordered them, and while everything in me says she is a girl. I just am not sure now that she is singing (didn’t sound like a cockadoodle doo) but definitely was a greeting to the...