I got a young gold deathlayer chicken which I suspect to be a ??? Well I am not going to tell to avoid influencing any one. I know it is early but the chicken is 4 weeks old. I have a harder time sexing young chickens with a rose comb or with a pea sized comb. I have my suspicion and will open...
Hope I am in the right forum section with this. It does not really fit in incubating.
I do have a flock #1: of 9 deathlayer hens, 1 deathlayer rooster, 1 olive egger hen, 2 Giant Jersey hens and 1 Light Brama hen. I do have a terrible hatch rate of 0 to 10% of the eggs from this flock.
My...
I was wondering who already is getting infected with the baby chick fever? I have to admit it, it got me already this year. Every day to work do I pass by a Tractor Supply store and wondering when I will see the sign we got chickens.
Well I am soon setting some eggs too. Yes, the chicken fever...
I was not sure if it is a good idea to order day old chicks in fall but so far I love it. Also found an article why it is good to raise fall hatches and now like to share my experience.
We did not had to make to many changes with raising the chicks indoor before moving them outside. We delayed...
I have a 23 week old Egyptian hen and so far have not gotten a egg from her yet. Wondering if she has a hidden nest. How did you all find the hidden nests of your hens?
Hi all,
I made couple pictures of the chickens in questions. I like to get the gender confirmed and I have 2 chickens which I can't figure out the breed. All the chickens are from Meyer hatchery and have clean legs. Age of the 4 chickens is 6 weeks.
Let's start with the roosters.
RIR- rooster...
We have 2 different hatches about 1 week age difference. Can we put both together in one brooder or do we have to worry that the older ones will hurt / kill the younger ones?
Do we have to introduce them?
We ordered Gold Deathlayer chickens from Pasturefarms in Georgia last year and recently received our order. They do not ship chickens and have a good selection of rare breeds. This is a private run farm and we had to pick up the chickens at the meeting point provided on their website. This was...
We ordered 15 day old chicks from Meyer overhatch assortment and were lucky to get a 30% discount for the 4th July week. This made the deal even sweeter. The chicks arrived well as usually. We are not ordering for the first time and have been happy with this hatchery. We put in the comment to...
We meet a breeder at a chicken swap and he is offering us a young breeding pair (Gender verified by DNA test) for $80. Not sure if this is a good prize. Still looking into the breed to make sure it is the right one for us.
We like duck meat and are hoping to it is a dual purpose breed with...
We hope it is a pullet but based on the development of the comb and waddles at nearly 7 weeks is it saying a rooster. Another indication for rooster would be the heavy white on the chest compared to the others. The breed is speckled Sussex. All pictures are of the same chicken and every once in...
I know it is early but this one looks like it maybe a rooster which I identified as a pullet at hatch day. Hatch day is: March 24th
Father: Silverrud Isabar
Mother: EE
Age: 3 week (soon 4 weeks)
The mother has a peas size comb with some muff and beard. Chick does not show any waddles yet vs...
We decided to try out to incubate chicken eggs this year after raising successful day old chicks last year. We also are adding are rare breed to our flock. The forum is a great help about incubation and helped overcoming the hesitation of incubating. We decided to buy the nurture right 360 and...
We have been looking into incubating eggs and reading up on it. We bought 2 incubators (Nuture Right 360 and Brinsea Maxi 24 Advance). The second one is a backup in case something happens to the other and also avoiding the cheap ones. We also got a candler and a hydrometer too as it is...
To the experts in this forums. We are thinking to add ducks to our homes and hope you can give us suggestions what breeds. The main goal for ducks is the meat but getting an extra egg for consumption would be nice. Ideally the breed is sitting on the eggs and raising the next generation. We will...
We have ordered 10 ladies and 1 rooster of the gold deathlayers and are excited to welcome them in spring. They will be 6+ weeks old when we pick them up. Currently are we making plans for their run and the coop. We plan to raise the coop up with 6 nesting boxes and have pear branches installed...
Hatch date: August 7th
Breed: Columbian Wyandotte
Amount: 4
Cost: $20 each
Location: South Carolina near North Carolina
Shipping: No, pickup only please
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Got this young lady and soon 24 weeks old. We would like to know if she is a Mottled Anocona or a Equencher Leghorn. She was yellow as a 1 day chick with a black stripe from head to tail. Looked like someone just painted her. We don't have a picture.
We are just curious. No matter what she...
We are not sure if we got a hen or roo. It acted like a hen at the breeder. The breed is Silverrud Isabar and we are hoping to get some blue eggs in the future. The chick is now about 11 weeks old (we don't have the exact hatch date).