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We had a rooster suffer from frostbite earlier in the year. We had it mostly resolved, although the damage was still apparent on the tips. Now we're in the middle of a cold snap, and today I came outside to find him with burned waddles, and a very dark, distinct black stripe from front to back...

Hey, I had a hen become egg bound on Friday. After some coaxing, soaking, and an intense round of calcium and vitamin d, she pushed out the egg. She perked up quite quickly after pushing the egg out... but 48 hours later she's still somewhat lethargic. She hasn't laid since, but she's not a...

I only had to move mine to the perch a couple times before they caught on, some faster than others. They want to perch, as long as the perch is high and accessible to them.

This isn't a great photo, but last night I found SEVEN birds sharing a single nesting box. Bird number eight was left to sleep outside of the coop. And here I was worried that the coop would be too small for them:

Thanks! I suppose I'll keep an eye on him -- I can't have an entire flock of roosters, but none of them are going anywhere until they get a bit older regardless.

Yeah, about seven weeks now.

The brown leghorns are incredibly roostery. The RiR less so, but still look pretty roostery to me:

Here they are a couple weeks down the road at 7 weeks:

Here's my bird... from what I'm reading, this is absolutely male, right?

We had our first attempted crow today, at around 6 weeks. 6 of 8 birds are obviously roosters, the last two are light sussex... I'd be calling them roosters except that my birds matured so fast that it's hard to know what to compare them to. I keep finding pictures of 10-11 week old birds that...

Yeah, that website is a mess. Do you know what time of year you can get ready to lay pullets from them? It might be a good idea for me to do. I suppose I could do it the old fashioned way and make a phone call.

Worst come to worst we'll have a quiet winter, and start again in the spring.

It's been a week, and the leghorns are definitely roosters now. They're getting skinnier and taller, the tail feathers are getting longer, and the combs just keep getting more obvious. The reds are also probably boys. I'm probably going to keep them around until they start crowing anyway.

Looking at this, my plymouth rock might be a rooster too. If everyone of my birds is a rooster it'll be a quiet coop this winter. My bird's carriage and feathering say chicken to me, and the comb is very yellow at 5 weeks, but the feat pattern is very white, which seems to be a dead give away...

I'm going to have to follow your progress; we got our birds from the same place (lots of roosters) and they've been very healthy and happy. The Light Sussex we picked up are both kind of anti-social... and the smaller one is very aggressive.

I just read your new member post; sounds like you got your birds from the same place we did. No wonder they all look so much the same!

The University of Alberta has a livestock/poultry research program, and part of that is deliberate preservation of genetics. They did a fundraiser this year, selling off day old chicks from heritage breeds, we paid a bit extra for chicks just to support them. link We've got Light Sussex...

Uh oh, at this rate we might have a very quiet coop come October. How'd you determine that?

Five weeks! I have two and they're identical, except in size. One has always been considerably smaller than the other.

Pretty much like that! I don't have a picture from the first day we had them, but they were ridiculous little balls of helpless fluff, with tiny nubs for wings. These were taken a couple days after we picked them up: