Hi i'm located in Essex and have a young chick in my care which is free to a good home, i was told that it is a gamefowl chick although the owner was unsure. it looks to me like a wyandotte. The bird has a white and black speckled chest, a golden head and silver pencilled feathers on it's back...
Thank you very much :) I just thought that it was odd as none of her parents where english white and that them genes are recessive. Also I don't know if it changes anything but her eyes are blue instead of brown, which can be seen in the second picture.
Haha yeah that should work, a couple of quail would be a lot less work than loads of chickens. Lol I'm sure pictures of fluffy chicks could change anyones mind.
Yeah she loves trying to dustbathe on anything soft and likes to sit on my laptop watching videos :D They are really easy to tame if you have them from chicks, They are an ideal pet really like a chicken you can keep indoors xD
I was very surprised that my female Japanese quail went broody and went on to hatch and look after 7 babies, although one of the chicks got badly injured so I hand raised her. They have all grown up and live with someone else now although I still have the tame one as she loves human company and...
Hello everyone!
I have kept chickens for around 7 years even though i'm 18 and have always had pet birds like budgies, cockateils, canaries and multiple breeds of finch ( aswell as a tame rescued sparrow). I also have pet quails and one tame one that lives indoors as she was badly injured at a...