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    Need sex ID on 6 wk old SL Wyandotte

    My other hens came from a prior hatching that was two weeks older and they weren't wyandottes. This was a single that I bought to add to a hen that was lost to a predator. I will say that when I hold the bird, the wattle has a fair amount of red coloration.
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    Need sex ID on 6 wk old SL Wyandotte

    Thanks. Can anything be determined from the pics of the tail feathers or wings here at 6 wks?
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    Need sex ID on 6 wk old SL Wyandotte

    Do Wyandotte hens have more color in the facial and head tissue? That is what confuses me.
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    Need sex ID on 6 wk old SL Wyandotte

    These are supposed to be hens, but this 6 wk old beauty sure seems to have a lot of color in the facial and head tissue. But the feathers and tail look like the other hens (different breeds). Pullet or cockerel?
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    Young rooster ID?

    Here's another question; How long before the feet spurs usually form? I see no signs on this one, and only one of the others is showing some spurs, but it is a hen.
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    Young rooster ID?

    Thanks everyone. Here is another picture.
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    Young rooster ID?

    I have a young flock of hens which I bought from a feed store that were hatched on March 1. Of course, the hatchery only guarantees 90% hens so I am suspicious that out of the 7, the first partridge rock pictured might be a rooster. It seems to have a more developed waddle and a larger crown...
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    Can fire ants bite chickens?

    In N Fl our property is full of those nasty fire ants that leave red welps on you. I have started letting my young hens free range and saw one of them stand right in a bed. She imnediatelt started lifting and pecking at her feet. So my question is whether these ants can penetrate the skin on...
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    5 wk chicks will only eat starter

    ..Well the young girls did actually start picking at an upturned dandelion I placed in the cage (roots and all).
  10. Bstruss

    5 wk chicks will only eat starter

    Okay thanks, because I have read of some having success feeding alternative foods to chicks of only a few days old. So I wasn't sure whether they need to be trained to forage or accept other foods or whether tgat will come naturally with age. I am a newbie.
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    5 wk chicks will only eat starter

    We bought our 8 chick hens at the feed store several days ago and have been feeding them crumbled medicated chick starter. I am wanting to introduce some different foods as I intend for them to eventually partialfree range. I have tried to put small pieces of chopped greens, mulberries, banana...
  12. Bstruss

    Lighting for roost area

    I was hoping someone might have a guess as to what the hanging boxes are. I was thinking maybe they were chick rearing boxes since a couple had heat lights in them.
  13. Bstruss

    Lighting for roost area

    The far end is where I took down the sheet metal on the sides to open it up. That is where I have since built roosting structure. I am thinking of going with a deep llitter floor since I have so much available materials out here.
  14. Bstruss

    Lighting for roost area

    I live in Madison Fl which is the north central part of the state. I will post some pics of the existing structure. thanks..
  15. Bstruss

    Lighting for roost area

    Actually I misspoke and meant to say hardware cloth instead of chicken wire. But does the roost area need to be darkened with more structure being that birds in the wild sleep in trees and only need the darkness of nightfall? I guess that is my basic question. This structure will be plenty safe...
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    Lighting for roost area

    So I have an old covered chicken house of 25' x 10' with is caged in sufficiently. It had metal roof panels on the on north end which was used for the roost area but I have taken them down and put up chicken wire. The house (old property owner) basically served as a run, nest boxes, and roost...
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