near my house is a man who breeds and sells buff orpingtons, roosters, and day olds I bought chicks off him a couple weeks ago got a bag of feed with them, message me and I can give you the details and may be able to find his number... can deffinately give you the prices he gave me and...
My chicks have been out in the coop since they were a week in a half, I live in Maine. They're doing just fine and have been out there for about a week or two. Actually the 2 young buff orpingtons are outside now with our two 5 week old silver laced wyandotte roosters and everybody gets along...
I know that when our dog had worms they looked like rice, or little maggots and the vets said that they were tape worms. Have no idea if that's what they are just telling my experience with worms.
I checked them out today and chick #1 does have VERY red wattles and a redder comb, so I'm thinking he's deffinately a roo! The other chick's wattles and comb are lighter in color but both chicks' wattles are about the same size.. I'm not terribly worried if they are both roos as I have family...
**** Forgot to mention that both chicks still have part of the unbilicord still attached to their tummies. One has more of it left there than the other.
I got 2 buff orpington chicks sexed as pullets 2 days ago, and just had a towel down in the living room and was letting the run around on the towel. I noticed that one of them had dried blood on the backs of its shoulders' and what looked like porqipine quills coming out of the dried blood.. my...
Here are updated pictures of the same chicks at 3 weeks (today)
chick 1( thinking pullet)
chick 2 (thinking roo because of personality, tail is more erect, and over all body stance)
sorry about the quality I took them on my way indoors on my phone..
Im a newbie, I only have the two chicks right now and am getting 10 more and 5 ducks may21st. I think we will probably move the first two out to the coop fairly soon as their in the garage now and they've done fine with temps from 40-70 degrees, and probably colder in the mid of night (live in...