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Tums is a good idea!! I have easy access to a vet, and have been debating yesterday and today if I should give her a calcium injection just to be safe, but the amount of egg shells she has eaten put my mind at ease for added calcium, thankfully.

Thanks for your advice - just hearing someone else say she sounds normal is a help! I debated yesterday if she was just fluffing and squatting due to the extreme colds/highs we have been having (yesterday was -27C windchill, today it went above 0C and is currently raining!), but was also taking...

I have a 1.5yo light Sussex hen who typically lays about 5 times weekly. I noticed yesterday that she squatted in unusual places a handful of times, and she did not lay yesterday. Otherwise she is eating, drinking, walking around "chattering" scratching around being a normal chicken. No...

For those of you who commented or followed this - at 19 weeks we got our first egg from the hen I was wondering about! Fran doesn't need to be renamed Frank! I was feeling pretty confident since I last posted and their feathers had no signs of points or darkening, but did have a slight moment of...

Thanks for that advice! I wouldn't have thought of it!

I think she has rounded a corner in the sense that the amount she is losing has slowed down and now I am just waiting for her to fluff back up again. I had read that they are really sensitive at this stage and the new feathers are easily broken, so I have been trying to be hands off, but maybe...

I didn't say in my original post, but yes, I did check and she is clean. She is still acting totally normal, and has new feathers starting everywhere so I am trying not to touch her, but this was above and beyond what I expected from moulting (new owner, never have gone through it before!) I can...

My almost 2yo barred rock is having a very hard moult - every day I go out it looks like the remains from a fox fight! The poor girl has multiple naked patches - neck, back, saddle, bum - and she looks like she is half the size of her previous full feathered self! All of this I am sure is quite...

Well I finally started calling them bu names instead of just "the babies". Frannie and Dolly - which can turn into Frankie and Dolly if need be, but I think we are alright. :p

Hi @AAchicks, I am leaning towards them both being pullets, since they are now at least 15weeks and look NOTHING like my previous rooster did at that age. Here are some pics from last night, in case anyone can confirm or contradict me, and an older photo of hem with my last roo when he was the...

@aart I think I threw you off by saying I have been in limbo on their gender for 7 weeks, that is how long they have been at my farm for but they are actually around 13-14 weeks. Their combs are quite red in comparison to my buff orpington female of the same age, but right in line with my...

@aart - these guys are 13 or 14 weeks, pic is from today at that age.

Comb pics of the two unknowns. They look 100% different than my previous ameraucana rooster did at this stage of the game - by now he had a scarlet full grown peacomb and had been crowing for weeks! But one of these little chicks came to me with long gown in tail feathers and the other had none...

I like what you are seeing aart! I will snap another closer pic tomorrow. Alas, I can't claim these guys as Ameraucanas - the guy who I got them from said the mother was 3/4 ameraucana and the rooster was full. One of them has pale grey/green on the bottom of the feet, while the other has more...

Thank you all for this valuable advice. I am glad to have a community behind me as I navigate chicken ownership! My original plan was NO ROOSTERS. Zero interest in having roosters, I don't want hens missing feathers and to deal with any attitude. I didn't mind getting rid of the first rooster at...

Thank you @aart for posting this. It was somewhat exactly what I needed to hear. I contacted one of the people who were hoping to take my roosters and sent the first guy to his new home over the weekend. He was a bit of a favorite, but I feel fortunate that he had a place to go with his own...

I'm very lucky- my husband says I can actually keep them all if I want, or I have homes that want them if I let them go. I just don't want to get myself into a situation from lack of planning down the road. I also think I might be too soft for chicken keeping - I don't know if I have the heart...

Out of my little flock of 7, 2 for sure MAYBE 3 are roosters. In my way of thinking, 3 roosters to 4 hens is just asking for trouble. I never intended to keep roosters anyhow, I really just wanted hens. However, my 2 roosters seem to get along totally fine at 4 months old, and the one that...

Ok, phew! I remember my older rooster getting lots of little flecks like this all through him before his wings darkened. So I guess I am still waiting for these ones to decide what they are at 12 weeks. The only good part is that i had been suspicious on my other roster guy from 7 weeks onward...

Is that little spot the dark barring I am to be watching for? This pic was taken at around 11 or 12 weeks.