I ordered five Dark Cornish roo chicks from MMH and they gave me one free (you'd think they wanted to get rid of roos or something!) so I ended up with six. Over the past week, five of them have really shot up; their combs are getting big, along with their legs, and they're starting to feather...
I just got a shipment of chicks today and one of them won't stop scratching her eyes. She'll pause for a minute or too then run into walls and everything else trying to scratch them. I checked her eyes and I don't see anything in them and I flushed them thinking she has something in them but...
I have four 9 1/2 week old pullets that I bought from someone who had ordered a large pullet run. She listed that she had several varieties including Welsummers and Partridge Rocks, both of which I wanted so I went to pick out two of each. When I got there she said they'd done an assortment and...
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and #3! - This one is my favorite. He/she let me take a ton of pictures and I even posed him/her a few times!
I'm thinking these are pullets, but I'm not very familiar with JGs.
I have two less than one year old roos that I got several months ago. They had been raised since eggs together and got along great! They slept cuddled together and kinda tag teamed the ladies. Well, the past couple weeks my large roo, Jack, has completely shunned my slightly smaller roo Dragon...
But now I'm not too sure. By two weeks (looking at other pics) there is obvious white in the feathers coming in (like with my Barred Rock). But after taking some close up shots of her today, I see brown striping! She has a dot on her head like a Barred Rock or Dominique, but no white. Any...
I just bought a few chicks from a woman in my area and one of the ones I bought was supposed to be a Cuckoo Marans. When my husband brought him/her home, I didn't think it looked like a cuckoo but he was pretty and I didn't care too much. Now It's driving me crazy that I don't know if he's...
Yay! My chicks arrived bright, early and cold this morning here in "sunny" FL. I Brought them home and besides acting sleepy at first everyone is fine. My question is, what does pasty butt look like? I inspected everyone's rear and they all seem fuzzy and unpasted. Is it more subtle than that...
Hi all! I've been lurking around the forum for a couple of months but my family and I have finally gotten everything ready to bring home some chicks, so I knew it was time to join ^.^ I've never had chickens before but my husband grew up with them. We currently have a tiny "flock" of two cats...