My 9 month old EE is ill. She didn't lay yesterday (not unusual), then laid a perfect egg early this morning. Not unusual for her to lay early if she didn't lay day before. Then list evening she was back in the nest box very late, 7 pm. That's never happened for her. I noticed she was way less...
My second attempt at getting a BR hen…. But why do I suspect another Roo? I thought BRs are easy to sex at hatch?? (New to this chicken mom thing….this is my second brood)…
Legs are darker than my last…. But she/he seems to have the crisp bars & that comb already?
3 weeks old, from
Chickens...
So I’ve read that Barred Rocks are one of the easier chicks to sex….. my last order I paid for female & got a roo…… this set of chicks again paid for all females….. but this little BR is giving me rooster vibes?
Just under 3 weeks…..
Any opinion?
Forgive me.... but I'm a new chicken mom & got my first egg this week!! Shirley.... who I thought was an Australorp laid her first egg earlier this week. She was signing her head off with the egg song for a few hours .... kept going in & out of the coop & rooting around in the nest box.... I...
New chicken mom here. This is my 8 week old barred rock LaVerne I got from McMurray at 1 day old. She has the biggest comb & waddle of my tiny flock of 4 other breeds…. I’m starting to think LaVerne is really a Lenny…?
Sadly, I live in the city limits & can’t have a roo…… she’s become my...
Hi there!! I'm Carolyn (CJ) and I'm a new chicken mom. I have four chickens.... three are 7 weeks old & one is 6 weeks old. The 6 week old is a leghorn named Betty White & then there's what I think is an Australorp (Shirley), Barred Rock (LaVerne) & what I think is a Whiting True Green (Flo...