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I'm five years (I think?) into having chickens. Right now I have 17 and a very nice roo, because third time's a charm I guess. It's a mixed flock of wyandottes, olive eggers, marans, ISA browns, calico princesses, and then a lone ancona and blue egger. I was planning on culling the wyandottes...

I was going to do that too :) Do you have any pictures? I need ideas!

Yes there will be overhead protection. I currently have 14 chicks, one confirmed cockrel and four+ I have suspicions about, and I ordered 15 more (I don't want that total amount but it was the minimum order amt so I'll sell the extras once they are older). I want to end up with 16-20 birds...

We are building a rotating paddock system for my chickens (still currently "chicks"), total area is roughly 90'x56' divided into three or four paddocks. The ground is mostly a grass/clover mix. I tried to put down chicken forage mix but some stupid Canada geese came and ate most of it.... What...

What about this wyandotte? The other one from page one died, got wedged between the window screen and the board holding it up overnight (sad but if it had to happen, happy it was this bird). This has some red but the saddle feathers look rounded to me (sorry no body shot)

Following because I have a similar question. I currently have six week old chicks out in a coop already and doing fine - no outside access yet because it's still under construction because of course I overplan and overbuild everything. I ordered more and they will be here third week of June...

Oh my she's GORGEOUS!! 😍 OK I feel better about not possibly losing some of my favorites now, and I can sell the extra chicks (after I pick the ones I want to keep that is, haha).

Oh interesting. What and why is the reason for the cecal poops?

Oh well! Thank you for the info. Erm... I ordered more chicks because what I was being told was basically anything that had red was a cockrel. Looks like I may have too many birds now :idunno

Thank you!! I knew that they excreted both in the feces, but even so I wasn't sure if what I saw was normal or not. I appreciate it :)

@ehlehnaaah mine are older than in your picture (useful tho, thank you!), will it still work on nearly 6 week old chicks?

OK I have a bit of a weird questions but.... what is chick poop supposed to look like? I've had horses, donkeys, assorted other animals, but never birds. To me, loose manures are bad, but I know birds have obviously very different excretory processes. I have five week olds right now, just...

Ohh hmm.... Do you have a picture showing which feathers you mean? I'm very new to this.

To see if it grows/changes, or ? I've been taking pictures of them all from the start and comparing, seeing who is turning red. I'm just worried because so many have red, and I'm being told ANY red means cockrel, in fact I was told "it is a precocious pullet who has red even at 10 weeks."

This is, to me, a male wyandotte. He's very red and a total jerk, jumps on the other birds feet first, very quick to peck and harass. Body looks like the other wyandottes. I have five, three have red like him but the comb isn't as developed/rough, and two have yellow combs.

And then there is this birdie, same breed but definitely red wattles. Body more like the one up above, just darker, in fact probably the one behind the light grey one in the third pic above.

OK but what about this one? In certain lights, the comb is red, and there is red to the wattle. Same breed, same age.

So this is CLEARLY, to me, a roo. Sapphire Olive Egger, he has all the typical characteristics.

I have a friend who raises meat birds semi-commercially, and she said anything that has red on it before 10 weeks is going to be a cockrel. I have longtime hobby farm chicken friends who agree. So either I am the unluckiest of unlucky at picking chicks from the farm store and managed to get 50...

Well, since my ultimate plan does include self-sufficiency (I also got a freeze dryer and have a large garden), I'm most likely going to butcher. I already emailed the closest processor too. It's super sad but I don't want to "eat" the cost of raising them, so I'm going to try eating them. If...