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Hi. I had a hen go broody so I let her sit on a few eggs in the spring. Two hatched, and both chicks were yellow at hatching. Now at about 10-11 weeks old they are white, one has a spek of black on a wing. But, here's the confusing part. The egg for one chick was most definitely from my black...

I love my mixed flock too, and maybe some of the Ameracaunas are EE's (no green legs though) and I have thw two mysteriously white home breds, but they do lok nice roaming the back yard

Well, I think my chickens are all what they claim to be. I am still confused however how I have two white chicks that I hatched here from a black australorp hen and a barred rock rooster. They were yellow when newly hatched and are now all white. One has tiny black speck on wing. They are about...

I had two barred rocks who I was sure were hens until henrietta crowed one morning...and penny shortly after that! They both had hen tails and no hackles or saddle feathers until much later on than my definite roo. So I am definitely not an expert but would say if you can wait until all the...

The Ameracauna hen was just the broody who hatched the chicks, it wasn't her eggs for sure. The rooster defintely barred rock. I thought the mom was the black australorp but now I am second guessing based on the fact that the chicks aren't black like both mom and dad were. Just wondering if...

I am not an expert but this is what I have gatthered from my research as an "Ameracauna" owner: Sometimes if feed stores mispell the breed intntionally as Americauna instead of Ameracauna, then it could be that they are selling EE chicks instead. Also, if the chicken has green legs that is a...

I should also note that the chicks are only about 2 weeks old in the picture when the pale grey was just starting in their wings. Now they are like that all over.

Very cute. I had really expected mine to look like your chicks with white underneath and darker on top.

Just posted the pic. One chick is about 5 days older than the other. I was sure the oldest one was from an Australorp egg. The second also, although the egg was kind of broken up so it may have been from RIR or the red star hen. I also have a golden laced wyandotte, and silver pencilled rock hens.

I had a hen (Ameracauna) go broody and gave her a few eggs to set on. Two of the three hatched. I was sure the hen that laid the eggs was the BA and I only have the one rooster (BR) in with the flock. Since both the mom and dad had been black as chicks, that is what I expected these to be...

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I have just discovered through a local poultry site that a "breeder"I have purchased several chickens from in the past year may have a problem in her flock. Several people posted that their birds were dying and a few had actually had autopsies done at the local college and the results were...

Thought it was moult, but has been going on for over two months and the skin is very red. Eating commercial layer ratio plus BOSS. Feather loss is mainly on underside and around wings. Egg shell color is getting lighter. They are BR and just a year old. A leghorn that was in the coop was found...

Thanks I will try her bck with the others although they are 1 to 3 weeks older (mixed bunch)

One of my chicks appears to have a leg broken at the hock joint. I have splinted it, hoping that it may at least fuse together. Is this wrong? I can't bear to kill the poor little thing. It is peeping like crazy. I have it separated from the others now in a box. I have offered her chick feed and...

Your chick #1 with the feathered legs looks very similar to my bantam buff brahma chick...

Thank you. Her legs look ok and when I pick her up they definitely both start kicking at me, so I don't think a leg is broken. I was worried about broken back or tail...like maybe the rooster hopped on too rough. He isnt aggressive with them, just over eager to mate sometimes. She is holding her...

Any advice would be appreciated. I have only had chickens less than a year. A few days ago, I noticed one of my RIR hens sitting under the roost when the others were outside, which is unusual. She got up when I went in and went outside but had a terrible limp and her tail is drooping downward...

I'm sorry, I don't have an answer but have a hen that sounds identical to this. Does yours have a droopy tail too? And I notice today the comb is starting to flop over on my hen too. She is still eating but I think it is her that has laid 2 aggs in sacs, no shells.