I'm impatiently waiting for my girls to lay! This is my first flock, my oldest is 25 weeks but I think my Barred Rock, who is 20 1/2 weeks is most mature. She's grown huge comb and wattles and is the loudest of them all (and is my favorite) but isn't squatting yet. Can anyone tell by looking at...
We have a handsome Bantam EE Roo that needs a new home since we can't keep him. He has been on organic feed. We bought him as a sexed 1 day old chick but has turned out to be a "he"! SF Bay area local pick up only.
Wild - a perfectly formed egg with a shell, inside a giant egg. Crazy.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newsvideo/weirdnewsvideo/9818679/Hen-lays-egg-within-an-egg.html
I need to re-home my Bantam EE cockerel. Anyone in the SF Bay area want him? Free to a good home. My others are girls, right? (Please??) I have no idea what to look for in my silkie, in particular. They are all 10 weeks old.
I bought five chicks (supposedly all female) from a hatchery now almost six weeks old but I am starting to wondering if the Bantam Easter Egger in particular might be a cockerel. Her(his?) comb was getting reddish at five weeks already and she often jumps on and chest bumps the others despite...