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Are your hens also Cochins? My Cochins, including the roo, are a little wimpy and tend to avoid conflict and hide rather than spar, peck and work it out.

Can you post pictures of them? That would probably help folks to give advice.

Thanks! Fingers crossed you are right! Freckles is already enormous and it wouldn't be terrible if he was an (only) roo, but they all change so much everyday it's not hard to convince myself that I must have ended up with a box full of males...

Hi everyone! I ordered sexed Cochins from a hatchery that are now 8 weeks old. We had one that we suspected early on was a roo, but within the last week we have several more that are getting very pink in the comb, and about 5 that are still completely yellow. I'm now getting extremely nervous...

Thanks! We're starting the frantic "how many are boys??" refrain now. Obviously if they are boys I'll need to get some more girls for them! Duck math at its finest!

Amen, carlf. The lack of responsibility can be maddening. We have one neighbor who in a joking but judgmental way mocks our Fort Knox coop, then in the same breath tells us about the hawk/coyote/fisher cat that carried off one of his birds. One of these days I'll probably haul off and tell him...

Here's 3 of my 4! Closing in on 3 weeks old.

Hi there! I did a road trip (though not as long as your upcoming move) with very young ducklings. I used a medium pet carrier and lined it with paper towels. On top of the paper towels I put chux pads/puppy pads, and then on one side of the carrier I put some cut-up old rags. I gave them food...

These fluffy featherbottoms are 8 weeks old now! We came across the box they were shipped in yesterday in our scrap pile. Pretty unbelievable they all fit in there once! These

If the chicks are already 'teenagers' I'd think that avoiding coccidiosis would be more a matter of hygiene and not letting the coop get warm, damp, and full of poo. I've misted the ground for mine when it's hot and the ground is baked. I won't spray them directly but I do have a couple...

I have no experience with turkeys or guineas, but my chickens are only slightly younger than yours and I'm having success coop-training them. They lived in the coop for several weeks. Then I began letting them into a makeshift pen an hour before it started to get dark. I have a specific jar that...

DH clicked the box for the free chick before I could stop him, because we do not want roosters! Sure enough, the mystery chick is a roo, and 3 out of the 13 surviving chickens in the order are also roos, so we got some bad luck there. The mystery chick is a buff-laced Polish and the rest of the...

We are officially set to become first-time chicken parents! 15 standard cochin pullets are on their way to us the week of May 16. The only slight problem is that DH excitedly clicked the "Yes" box on the hatchery's "Send me a free chick" scheme before I could explain that it's definitely going...