Oh yay!!! Thank you. I had been talking to someone and they thought the black was weird so it made me look it up and everything I found also made it sound iffy. I appreciate your replies.
We got 5 Salmon Faverolle pullets from Tractor Supply on July 1st and after reading up on them, it appears hens don’t have any black. I do already have one that’s a few years old and she has no black. I did see that if they are a bad misrepresentation of the breed they can have black but...
Well that’s a bummer but thank you. I had a feeling though because once I looked online, a lot of people seem to say it’s the coloring that determines the sex. Not sure how true that is.
So today at Tractor Supply they had Easter Eggers but they were straight run. 😩 I already have a monster of a rooster so I don’t need any more. The lady working said she can “somewhat” determine the sex by the wings but couldn’t guarantee it. Some had very distinct wings and some it was hard to...
I was finally able to get her into a vet after about 4 weeks of crating her and not a huge improvement. The vet did xrays and she has a very broken femur. She still is in such great spirits, loves swimming still and is still laying tons of eggs which seems weird because you’d think she would be...
On 4/14/20 we went to let our chickens and ducks out and we noticed our Pekin duck wouldn’t walk. We suspect she got up on a shelf in the coop and fell off. I looked online for other similar injuries and followed what people said they did. We have had her in a small dog crate since the day she...