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Our breeders are large clear plastic tubes with meshed tops so I put them end to end. For now, I've covered the broody hen and her chicks because the other chicks sat at the edge area and cried and cried for her. I'm sure they prefer to sleep under her but will have to learn to love the MHP...

Update: First, mama hen slept fine with all the chicks and so I hoped all would then be well. Nope. This morning when all the babies got up, mama hen was clearly accepting the two Dominiques alongside her hatched chick (Dominique-Silkie mix, so the three look similar). The two Buff Orpingtons...

I have a hen who only hatched 1 of the 5 eggs she had collected (none were her own). I was really worried about the chick being alone when the mama and chick are ready to integrate with the flock. The chick is three days old today so I went and bought some chicks similarly aged chicks (< one...

Thank you @sylviethecochin Good to know it's a more common behavior. Up until recently, we had 4 roos in the yard but two had to go. This little guy had been really quiet and shy until then but now crows all day and treads everything in sight.

Hi folks! I have a sweet little Mille Fleur D'uccle (Joe) who is about 15 weeks old. He has what I think is an odd behavior, but maybe this is normal. He "treads" sticks and other objects in the yard with his favorite being the top of a solar pathway light that fell off. He crows and crows and...

Blue Andalusian 10 months Hen Name: The Rogue

Oh yeah, I can see a bit more red on these. Maybe in a few more days or week my little one will mature more. I've read that Cochins can be slow to mature.

Thanks @summerb123 and @ECSandCCFS ! I feared they were both cockerels. This puts me at four cockerels in a place where I am allowed zero. Yikes! I already have OEG and Blue Andalusian roos. I bought show quality breeder eggs for my son because he wanted better chickens to show than our hatchery...

I hatched one Mille Fleur D'uccle and one Mottled Cochin (they are from a group of 8 eggs where 4 hatched; other two are a Silkie and an Oliver Egger). They are about 5.5 weeks old now. I'm pretty sure the D'uccle is a cockerel, but less sure in the Cochin (sweetest chicken EVER!). Very...

Did you wind up ordering from Duane Urch? Was looking to contact him but then saw this post.

I have two Buff-Laced Polish That are now 17 weeks old. I think they are both hens, but they loom quite different from each other, which may simply be because one is bearded and the other not. Neither make much sound at all, but my obvious Faverolles rooster has never crowed and he's my only...

Nice!

That would make for a great touch ... to just find some people who are like, uh, what? Zombies? Huh? Life here is all good ... Goes back an earlier convo on this where I feel pretty certain that in low population density places, you'd just have a way better chance of not encountering many...

Dying with laughter .... I have been out on some of those roads in dead of winter when a storm rolls in, and I always thought I was well-prepared but now think I should've started to keep chickens sooner (and in the car, just in case).

I think so. I've been doing a bit more digging around about them. They were one of the last minute add ons to my order, so I spent the least time reading up on them beforehand. The only chicken we are interested in showing from this bunch (so far) is one of the Polish. My 6-year-old is in 4H and...

These are so great! I love the Molly and Tank picture. I don't think I looked at these partocular birds in my search. Gorgeous though! Trying to imagine a 12 hour drive with chickens ... oh my! I'm looking forward to the chicks growing into full grown chickens and having them out in the yard...

Wow! So different! The chicken in the front on the right is really beautiful! What is she?

Excellent advice! I feel really duh right now because I only ordered two Salmon Faverolles and just realized that I have three! That's the freebie! I think they did that one because one has a bum eye. At first we thought it had no eye in one of the sockets, but we've been able to clean the eye...

My chicks are about one week old and I ordered eight different breeds, and am a newbie at this. So, I am wanting to make sure I know which chicks are which. Any opinions on whether I have this correct or not are most welcomed! Blue Andalusian Salmon Faverolles Rhode Island Red...

Great idea on the Breed ID forum. And on being an enabler with Debby! Oh my, I went from let's get 4 chicks to 25 chicks pretty much the moment I started looking at pics and reading about the breeds. I was reading the reviews on this sites of different breeds and the cons were minimal for...