Cushion comb on my year old cockerel, see the one on the left.. He's such a good boy, not a mean bone in his little body.. Can't say that about the one on the right.
Hen hatched 6 chicks on March 2nd and I know for sure two are roos as I have heard and watched them crow. But the other four haven't crowed. What does this one look to be? hen or roo? What about the first chick in the second picture the one that looks to be part silkie does it look like a hen...
I currently have my second bantam hen for the year setting on 7 Barred Rock eggs. When I first noticed she was getting broody I watched her daily for a couple days to see if she was truly going broody, by watching I mean how she acted when the other hens would come near her while setting on her...
Two of the six are Roo's for sure. I was working out in the yard last weekend and heard the saddest little crowing and walked over and took a look in their coop and seen who it was.
Snow as of this week has kicked her kids to the curb.. They are almost 6 weeks old and she no longer loves them. Snow went back to the main coop and is now laying daily again.
I'm pretty sure the solid white chick and the chick in the first picture
to the far back right with its head down close to the floor are hens. But not sure of the others. I realize the picture is probably to far away to see really well, but any guesses?
I have a 10 month old Barred Rock Roo from a McMurry Hatchery and he in the last month has become very aggressive. I have to do work in the run before I let him and his 7 hens out in the mornings and I have to lock him out of the hen house to do work and gather eggs inside the hen house...
I don't think me nor my girls are going to like this thing called molting. It will be our first time later this year. The girls will be a year old May 4th.
My first chickens haven't been through a hard molt yet, they are just now 8 months old so i'll be expecting their first hard molt later this year or early fall. My question is should I remove the rooster during the molt? I know the rooster can during mating make the girls look a little ratty and...
I go out to turn my 9 young hens & three roosters out of their coop into their secure covered run at 5:45am and usually there are at least 2 eggs in the nest box and a couple hens in the nest boxes at that time. They usually come off the roost around 3:30am -4:00 am and start their day. I have...
I have 9 barred rock/ first egg was laid at 17 weeks, today Dec 1st they are 30 weeks old and all lay me a egg a day.
I have 2 small feather footed hen's and they are 28 weeks old today Dec 1st and only one of them is laying, but I expect the other to lay any day now.
I love my girls & boys, I...
Your CP is the heavy duty panels. I have a few of the older panels and I bought 6 new panels last year from TSC and they aren't nearly as heavy duty as the old panels.