http://msucares.com/poultry/management/poultry_sexing.html
Feather sexing is based on feather characteristics that differ between male and female chicks. The method is very easy to learn by the poultryman, but the feather appearances are determined by specially selected genetic traits that...
Yes please post pics,also you can eat eggs even if there is a rooster in with the hens.
Sometimes chicks feather in weird and they go through that freaky looking stage.
My little Buff Bantam Cochin runt is not doing so well.I got the Bantam Cochin special Ideal was having.
Yesterday I noticed the smallest one a Buff one was just not acting right looked lost and confused and tended to chirp allot more.
I separated it and gave it a warm place and something to...
"The California White Chicken is a cross between our best White Leghorn chicken hen with a California Grey Chicken Rooster."
http://www.cacklehatchery.com/califwhitepage.html
Leghorn
Mediterranean; enjoys free range; flyer; flighty; spritely, noisy, nervous, usually avoids human contact...
Some people actually think that if it has feathered legs its a Cochin,same as allot of people think that all little chickens are a breed called Bantam.
I have 5 males in together(was 7), the girls sometimes hang out by their door no fighting so far.
At one time I had 20 + roosters housed together (someone was going to dump them in the woods).
They could see free ranging females and twice a female followed me into their pen, no fighting at...
If you have a desk clip on type lamp use that.
Im using a red goose neck desk lamp for my chicks since someone borrowed my heat lamp.
I sit a can of corn on it so it wont tip over and the base is alos outside the box.
something like these might work as well...