looks like australorp chicks to me, even the pullet size pic, same coloring as my chicks when they are young. about 8 weeks then they loose the white on the face. there will be occasional white spots on their rear or under th wings completely normal. wait till they are 4 months old before...
What's up, stopping in to say Hello, new here, but not to poultry. Started in 74-75 with my first RIR, White Leghorns, and blue egg laying Ameraucana I bought through mail order in the back of Popular Mech.
Now I have Australorps, Buckeyes, Leghorns, Black and Blue Copper Marans, Gold Laced...
Then it's done.totally typical of 35 day old cornish cross roos, I have 7 in a batch of 100 who battled it out for "king of the mountain"about the same time the op posted this. every batch I run each season it's the same, around day 33-35 cornish roos start to fight fiercely.
it takes a day and...
why not use a 3-4 wire energized fence to keep them out?
nowadays it's cheap, $120 for stakes a solar energizer and steel 17g wire.
some time and secure birds. I've never had a coon cross my wires
and I've watched many vids of them getting slapped by the electricity
and run away. No coyotes...