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I know the rust color in wing indicates a cockerel. Does it always? Do I still have a chance to keep this baby (we have 6 roosters and can’t handle more) My heart shattered slightly when I noticed this. We decided not to hatch eggs because wanted all pullets, so we purchased sexed chicks for my...

This is the Cochin. At 6 weeks he was obviously a male. I couldn’t find any baby pics of the leghorn, but I know they are known for large combs too.

To add…this chick is the slowest to feather, but my Cochin was as well. Of course, he is male, but I believe Cochins are a slower feathering breed. At first I believed Brownie to be male because of the slower feathering, but my Cochin had a much larger comb by this age. As well as a black chest.

We hatched 5 babies on May 12 (my birthday too) and had 1 little brown baby (along with 4 other healthy, blue, black & barred babies) This chick came from a white egg, making the mother a brown leghorn. With the super fuzzy legs, the father has to be my partridge Cochin. From my understanding...

I have a SLW with this same thing! Maybe it’s a genetic thing with SLW? She molted in October and has looked like this since (5 months) She acts healthy, but comb is starting to turn orange. She is almost 2 years old.

Thanks for the reply. The only treatment was a single Elector PSP treatment, a month after molt started. I can treat her with BOSS, she will love that. She seems to get along fine with her feathers. They don’t seem to be super sensitive and she tolerates being held. I guess we will just have a...

Yes. She had normal feathers before. I don’t know if it’s the mites that stopped the feathers from growing back, but no other chickens had this happen.

My Wyandotte started to molt this fall, then just stopped. She has been like this since October. I noticed mites, so they were all treated with Elector PSP in November. Her feathers are now very dry and wiry. Will she look like this until she molts again next year?

I have 3 Austra whites and all 3 have gone broody. I was able to break 2, but the third is relentless! I was shocked they went broody, and especially that all 3 did. I don’t want more chicks, so I’m still trying to break her. I may end up giving in and letting her have a chick. I have...

Thank you. I thought that’s how it worked. The most likely father is my partridge Cochin. I wasn’t sure since he isn’t a solid color it still works.

I have a moody broody (black copper marans) and would LOVE to hatch some of my own eggs. That is why I got roosters. Well, I ended up with 6 roosters. 4 silkies, a blue ameraucana and an accidental partridge Cochin. I can not afford more roosters. If I took my barred rock eggs would they be sex...

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I purchased 2 sexed male blue ameraucana From a hatchery. They are almost 12 weeks old. One is obviously a male. The other looks more female. The suspected female is also non bearded so won’t be bred, but it would be great to at least get eggs. Could I have got lucky and actually received a male...

They are both very pretty. If it turns out to be a male, it gives a good excuse to order more females. That’s how I look at it anyways.

This chick is 5 weeks old. She was ordered as a light Brahma pullet. She is much darker than other LB that I have seen and was darker as a chick. Ordered from my pet chicken (likely came from Meyer?) I like her and will love her as the pet bird I ordered, but just curious if this is really a...

Sorry for the late reply. I did a blood sample from clipping the toenail into the quick. I did this as day old chicks & got enough for a sample. Now they are 12 weeks old, and the dna didn’t lie. 4 boys & 2 girls

I have had bobcat problems too. We are calling in a trapper and hope we can catch it. We have lost 4 hens and a baby this year.

I finally got out to take pics. She is just over a week old. She is colored like an Australorp or black jersey giant, but the leg color and white head spot are wrong. Sold as barred rock, but really doesn’t look like the other barred rocks. My only guess is cuckoo Marans.

I got my broody 4 baby chicks. I bought from TSC. The only chicks they had in stock were Cornish, ISA browns, barred rock & silver laced Wyandotte. They had no chicks the day before, and these chicks had just come in that day, so those are the options. I immediately noticed the BR & SLW were...

I have had a broody speckled Sussex for 3 weeks. We tried to break her, but she broke us and I went and got her babies today. I may have goobered up and showed them to her when I got home. Of course, I had visions of the perfect scenario, where she is so thrilled to have babies, she coos and is...