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Thanks for those links!! I'm gonna have to go look a wings now! LOL! Yeah ... I'm still amazed that they molt in the fall like this. I mean, feathers are there to help keep them warm and now they need to keep warm! LOL! Silly birds! I'm waiting on my pullets from my April hatch to get into...

I have 6 laying hens that all seem to be molting. All at the same time! I have 5 Golden Comets and 1 RIR. They are in varying stages though .. with some just starting and one almost naked!! Now I was getting 5 or 6 eggs a day from them and of course this number has dropped and actually I have...

I would also look all over the place for eggs. Hens like to lay in strange places. If they have not been locked up in the coop and run for a few days before you let them free range, they may be laying elsewhere. It's also a good idea to make sure you don't have an egg eater! So, I'd lock them up...

You do what feels right for you at this moment. Let out your emotions. You will feel better ... eventually. I will keep you and your family in my prayers.

I hatched it from eggs my husband ordered. The seller has tons of breeds and can't tell us for sure what it is. Especially since the egg was marked as a Giant Cochin.

I 3rd that!

I'm not familiar with either one of those breeds. Guess I should go take a look! I know I had posted this chick as a baby and someone thought maybe a RIR or something similar. But I really was not feeling that was a good fit. Hummmmm ... maybe it's a cross between Speckeled Sussex and Welsummer...

Thanks. I'm really leaning on a runty Buff Orp. It is literally 1/2 the size of my other 2 Buff Orp chicks the same age. And the feathers on it's wings are throwing off. Not the color but the shape of the feathers. They are not like normal feathers. It's like they are broken or something, but...

Don't worry just yet. Some breeds will produce hens with large combs and waddles. But like I said ... I'm not positive on the buff ones. You may need to post some full body pics for us to see them better. Boys will have different feathering than girls. They also have different body shapes and...

I would say your Red Sex Links (brown and white ones) are pullets. They look like mine did last year. I think the boys would be all white with maybe some splotches of red. The buff ones could be Buff Orpingtons. But I did not know they would be sold as an assorted red? I can't say what sex the...

This little chick I thought hatched out of a Buff Orp egg. But it is small ... way smaller than my 2 Buff Orp Chicks who are the same age. It is about the same size as my month old bantams. I am not sure what this chick could be. Can anyone take a guess? It's a month old in the following pics...

This chick hatched out of a miss-marked egg. The egg said "Giant Cochin" and this is NOT a Giant Cochin. Here are some pics of the chick starting with a few days old up to now - about a month old. Thanks!! Here it is with some Buff Orp chicks the same age. Now this is what it looks like...

I hatched some bantam eggs I received in the mail. All the eggs were marked as to what was in the egg. This little chickie hatched out of an egg marked as a "Giant Cochin". I honestly don't think it's a cochin ... there is no feathering on the legs at all. So, I am wondering what y'all think. I...

I have my brooder outside in the coop. We have a 250w red brooder lamp hung up and at the right level to provide the right temp for our new chicks. The only reason we got the red one was because it seemed to be the favored light to use in brooders. My husband did some internet searches on it -...

I think that yellow one is a Leghorn and the orangeish one is probably a red sex-link. My neighbor got a doz of the straight run chickies last spring that looked just like your yellow and orangish chick. They grew into red sex-links but his roos were completely white. But this is my guess only...

Quote: I have 3 hydrometer/thermometers in with my eggs plus the thermometer that came with the incubator and none of them are the same . When this is over I am going to calibrate my hydrometers. I know!! I had 3 thermometers and all 3 read different things! I will leave them and hope for...

I have 2 fuzzy butts hatched and almost dry in there today! Of course they are W-I-L-D in there and knocking the unhatched eggs EVERYWHERE!! Should I remove these two once they are completely fluffed out? I have an egg in there that has just piped and it is getting rolled all over and...

I just LOVE Paula!! I got a knife set that has her name on it and they are the best knives I have gotten for such a nice price! I like how she cooks too ... real ingredients and nothing too fancy. I agree with chickaddict on both Paula and Rachel!! I did not know she had chickens though! That...

Kipoley ~ I set eggs on April 1st. But it was after 12 noon, so for me April 1st is day 0. I set some more on April 2nd, but once again they went in after lunch .... so they are a day behind the first ones I set. I read on here that if you set in the morning or am ... that counts as day 1 and if...

Apparently it's legal in MD!!