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I acquired 2 chicks at a feed store with one being advertised as an Ameraucana and the other that is 5 weeks younger was a mystery breed. They look to be Easter Eggers and the darker one just started laying green eggs. The pictures were taken awhile ago although they still look exactly the same...

I have a question to all chicken keepers out there. Which chickens did you have best experience with being good natured around people? This doesn't just include breeds but hybrids as well. I would like everyone's opinion.

1: I have some articles I have created not too long back. Some of them I don't want on here because I think they are worthless. 2: A lot of articles that I try to read on BYC are usually newbies that have asked questions and have accidentally posted in the article section instead. That isn't...

Hi, I was wondering if it is ok to breed an Olive Egger hen with an Olive Egger rooster and expect the offspring to be Olive Eggers. Will the offspring still lay olive eggs as they should? If I couldn't breed the roosters then I feel like they wouldn't serve a purpose and really wouldn't have a...

I had purchased an easter egger chick as a companion for my Japanese Bantam and they told me the chicks were unsexed. He/She is now 12-13 weeks of age and I am concerned about the gender. I haven't seen any cockerel behavior yet but the comb will sometimes turn red. Any help appreciated!

Hi everyone, I have never tried doing this in any flock of chickens I have ever owned before but in my one chicken pen, my one Black Copper Maran rooster was all by himself for a while. I recently introduced two 8 week old chicks and one, a Japanese bantam has turned out to be a cockerel. So...

Is my 8 week old Japanese bantam a pullet or cockerel? I am curious to know because he /she might need to be rehomed because I don't want to keep two roosters together. Any answers appreciated!

I am giving My Black Copper Maran to someone on Tuesday that is suppose to be cockerel. I am already positive I have 2 other cockerels I am about to rehome because I cannot keep these cockerels together as you can see there will be a lot of fighting. He acts like a cockerel, dominant, etc.. but...

I have a 6 week old Japanese Bantam that I am wondering if it is a pullet or roo. I am thinking pullet but I was wondering everyone else's opinion. Sometimes he/she will act like a roo but what concerns me is that it looks and feathered in just like a pullet. Any answers appreciated!

I have a mixed flock of different breeds, including a some black copper maran cockerels who are 8 weeks and a Japanese bantam pullet who is 4 weeks. Anyway, I'm planning on keeping a rooster and what happens when they mature and I'm letting an 8 lb. rooster mate with a 1 lb. hen? I really don't...

I am trying to figure out the breed of my 4 week old bantam. I was never told his/her breed. I wouldn't think it would be a mixed breed because the feed store I got it from orders their chicks from a hatchery. Anyway, I am terrible at breed guessing and I am trying to find out! Any help...

I am pretty sure I have a cockerel here but want to make sure before I end up rehoming him. I know two others are definite cockerels plus I have a eight month old rooster. I definitely can't keep four roosters with eight hens. I would like to know all your opinion. He/She is 4 weeks.

I have a chick in my incubator that externally pipped about 9 hours ago and so far hasn't made any progress. Chirping in the egg, but isn't really pecking at shell or moving. Should I crack it a little or do you think I should give it more time? Any answers appreciated.

Hi everyone, I was wondering when breeding chickens is it ok to do line breeding? I don't want to cause any bad effect to the offspring of the parents. Which would be father breeding with daughter. Can this result to deformed chicks? Or be detrimental to them in any way? I don't anything about...

I have 3 hens and a rooster of one breed in a separate pen from the other chickens. He would constantly mount the 3 hens even if he had to catch them. Now, it's been a month since he started loosing interest and now refuses to mate. He started really slowing down a few weeks ago only mating one...

I never get this problem when hatching eggs but now I do have a problem with keeping the humidity maintained in my incubator. If I add the water to my incubator and get it at the right percentage I want it, it ends up dropping 20% in 6 hours. I don't want to have to keep opening my incubator...

I have some eggs hatching in an incubator I collected from the hens. I am interested in letting them free-range in the pen area some of the day so that way they are not always cramped in a bin/box, especially when they hit about a few weeks and they desire to be out. Do you think the rooster...

Hi everyone, I know a lot of people here own roosters and I would like to know the reason why you own them, although there is probably reasons why you don't own them also.;) Just take the poll above and whatever I forgot to put please share it in the thread.

I haven't had experience in raising roosters before and my Black copper maran roo hatched Thanksgiving, so a little over 5 months and probably just started mating the chickens about a week ago. So my question is how long should it be until their eggs are fertile? Could it take another few months...

What specific age do roosters start crowing at? I know mine is 14 weeks the only one I have raised as a chick and he hasn't started at all yet. He tried once at 4 weeks of age but never after that. When did all of your roos start? Any answers appreciated.