Thanks guys. The reason I think Imogene is a girl is based on her dark coloring, as I have read, dominique girls have more black than white. Also the perspective in her picture may be a bit off because she was moving toward me so her comb seems a touch bigger in the picture than in real life...
We picked out names today and I was curious if you all think I have the genders correct. The splash is 9 weeks old, the dominiques are 6 weeks, and the marans 5 weeks.
She is precious! My daughter hand picked her so I'm hoping hen, otherwise she will have to move to my sisters farm and my daughter would be devastated.
I am glad to report that my Ellenor, the bird in question, layed a perfectly normal egg yesterday! I wanted to update this post for anyone in the future that may have the same weird thing happen to them. Thank you for your responses.
Help! My bird laid a fleshy covered yolk only!
I have a 10 month old red star. She laid great for a few weeks and stopped abruptly, and hasn't laid for a few weeks. She is eating great and moving around normally. Yesterday she laid this!!!! The outside is fleshy and when I cut into it there...
I have a 9month old red star. She laid faithfully for 2 months and about five weeks ago she completely stopped! I have checked her over head to toe and she is perfectly healthy and not molting. We live in Georgia so it is still warm here 70-80 degrees and certainly was warm back when she...