I've got a mystery on my hands. I picked up a silver spangled hamburg pullet at Buchiets that was prob about a week or so old and after a few days I noticed she was starting to gets a small crest which i just wrote off as baby fuzz but she's still got it 2 weeks later and it's gotten bigger...
Last year I had a horrible time with straight run chicks I picked all boys so this year when I got chicks at Buchiets I only picked out of the pullet bin but wanted a few more that were straight run and the boy helping me said he knew the trick to telling the boys from the girls. He said that...
BB has a new home so now I have 2 one year old roo's that need a good home, I have 1 lav orps and one rumpless Arauncana. I purchased both from a breeder. The reason I would like to re-home them is I'm wanting to take my flock in a different direction. Finally got decent pics of the boys
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I've got a mystery on my hands. I got a chick from Buchiets which gets their chicks from Ideal and I got it out of the assorted crested bin. This chick looks just like a silkie except it's has pink skin and legs could this little one be a sultan and Ideal has Sultans
I was at Buchiets last night picking up a few replacement chicks, and the boy there said that he can tell boys from girls and that he's got 100 and only has 20 roos he said he lays them on his back in his hand and if they pull their legs up they are girls and if they straighten out they are...
I have a 3 week old Salmon Faverolles(sp) that I think is a roo because of all the black that is showing up as Sammy is feathering out it looks like lots of black and cream freckles on he/her body can someone post a pic of one of your chicks at about the same age so I can compare, I've tried to...
I have 5 chicks that are 4 weeks old and Momma brought them out of the coop today it's prob about 50 degrees, my hubby snapped a pic for me . 3 are silkie/araucana mixes,the white one is a silkie/ameraucana mix and the black one is a turken/ameraucana mix. The black one is hopefully my only...
I have 4 4 week old silkie mix chicks, 3 are silkie/rumpless araucona mix and one is a silkie/ameraucana mix and so far they all have the rose type comb. Has anyone had this mix before and at what age were you able to tell girl or boy by their combs they are all feathering out the same and...
My 10 month old girl Shadow laid 4 blue eggs and I was so proud because I didn't think she would due to an injury when she was young. She's a major home body she hardly ever leaves the coop, I made her a nest box where I found her first egg and she laid 3 more in the same spot but she hasn't...
I have 4 3 week old silkie mixes, 3 are definetly araucana mixes because they are marked up just like their dad its the 4th that I have questions about she is white just like her mom and has more silkie traits and the other 3 and is developing muffs and the only white roo I have is my Splash...
I've have an egg mystery. The hen is banty and the egg is about the size of a marble and is dark brown. I have 7 banty hens and 5 reg size hens and when they all lay I have 11 eggs my Ameraucana hen hasn't laid yet and I collect 11 egss but every one and then someone lays a teeny brown egg...
My silkie is such a good momma she hatched out all 4 of her and her sister's eggs and hopefully the 2 turken eggs that still have a few days before hatch. I think the dad's are my rumpless Aracona's and maybe my Ameracana. Chicks #1,#2,#3 are marked up like my Aracona's(I cant never spell...
I have a 8 month old Amerucana who hasn't laid her first egg yet she is getting her fair share of love from the boys and has even sang the egg song a time or two. She had a severe head inury back in the summer she was basically scalped when one of the boys chased her under the generator and she...
I have a 3 1/2 week old "big chicken banty" as my hubby calls him and I have no clue who the dad could be the only thing I know for sure is that his dad is not one of my banty roo's. Grayson was hatched by my OEGB hen Smores but she's not his bio mom because he didn't have any chipmunk...
This is Grayson he will be 2 weeks old Wednesday(my daughter thinks he's a boy). His mom is a OEGB and his dad could be a Blue Andalusion or a Ameracuana or Rumpless Aracona(sp) or a Lav Orp. I have a cochin roo but he doesn't have feathers on his feet and I have a seabright roo and a OEGB roo...
I have a new silver black chick with clean legs that hatched yesterday and I'm trying to figure how who the dad is I know the mom is one of my 3 OEGB hens. Is it possible for my new chick to be a cochin cross if it has clean legs. I have 3 banty roo's and several reg size boys that have taken...
I have 4 eggs under my banty hen from 4 different hens and one hatched with help yesterday morning after it pipped the day before and i can see no signs of life in the other 3 i've listened and peeped and scratched and candled. Should I try to open them to see if just by some miracle one is...
I have a OEGB hen that has been sitting on eggs for 21 days as of 10/10/11. I've been candling them every few days because the other hens had been forcing her off her nest and scratching around in it and throwing the eggs around and they have been doing this from day one. When they are...