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I know all of my Cochins are hens, since they actively lay eggs, but my one, Big-Mama, has recently started towering over my light Brahma and my jersey giant in size! She has larger waddles/comb than her two siblings, and is a good bit taller than all of them, is it possible she’s a mix or just...

Got three chicks from tractor supply to place under a broody hen, which she rejected so we’ve been raising by hand... What we got was 2 Cochin and 1 “sapphire jewel”, they were listed as pullets but our sapphire doesn’t exactly look like one, what do you think she/he could be?

So a while ago our silkie chicken had found some turkey eggs and started to brood on them. She originally had 5 but 2 were duds. The whole time we’ve been planning on the poults coming at any time, not knowing which turkey hen is the mother of which egg. Well today two hatched! Safe to say we...

Well here we are again, we had found our silkie chicken sitting on some turkey eggs on 3March, she was brought inside to a brooder to do her thing, BUT we noticed all the days look to be growing at either different speeds or they are different ages Can anyone take a guess at what days they...

We caught our silkie sitting on the eggs on the 3rd, but we aren’t sure how long she had been sitting on them for or not! All 3 eggs are alive and moving a lot, I’ve only ever candled chicken eggs so it’s a first time candling turkey eggs. Anyone have a clue on which day they could possibly be...

Our Tom has started to turn his head white whenever I hand feed him? He’s never aggressive towards me and never gobbles, struts and makes any charges at me, he’s just very calm and will come running up making a soft “coo” almost whenever he sees me with food, and all the color drains from his...

Our blue slate Tom has started mounting our Narragansett hen, we have never had an egg from her before so we were curious if she would even start to lay any! He leaves our bourbon hen completely alone, doesn’t even bother her, (and she’s the older dominant hen, who has been trying to push...

Well since we just found out our blue slate is a Jake, we have an over year old bourbon red hen and an less than year old Narragansett Jenny. If they do begin to breed this year what are the possible outcomes for the eggs to become? (Color variation wise.)

Our blue slate hen has been driving us crazy trying to make sure she’s a hen. Originally when we got her three months ago, (we were told she was anywhere from 6months to 8months), she was the same size as the other girls. She didn’t get a bright red head, and her snood was normal ish to what we...

We have one chick, dominoes, who we were just guessing was a smooth, but not all of her feathers are ‘normal’ feathers. She has a lot of almost ‘silkie’ feathers, really soft downy ones almost, but a decent amount of normal feathers. I guess my question is—What makes a silkie...

Hershey is less than a year old,(from when we bought her we were originally told she was 6 months, it’s been about 3 months-so should be around 9-months.) Her wings are clipped since our birds free roam in a fenced in property. Just looking to trade for any breed heritage tom!

Our sweet little partridge chick has started to get more of the powdery gray all along her rear, back and now a decent amount on her wings itself, is she perhaps a blue partridge or just a normal partridge? The lighting on the camera doesn’t do her colors justice, she is the same color as the...

The chicks were both born on the same day, but the size difference is pretty big! Do they really have that kind of variety in size?

So our silkie hen is running under our blue slate hen, squatting and getting low, the only thing is—it’s royally making our Jenny mad. She now stomps, chases and bites our silkie when she gets within two feet of her. Is there a way to curb both of them out of it? The turkeys don’t go for any of...

Our little blue silkie has 5 toes, but one toe on each foot has an extra nail! Normal genetics?

I’ve tried making a post about this before, because our hens snood had been growing bigger, and it still is! Her beard is still small, she doesn’t display or gobble. Only slightly taller than the other two hens and really doesn’t have thicker legs.

We were told Almond-Joy was hen, and was less than a year old, along with another Narragansett hen. We’ve had the two for about a month, they sit with our year old red bourbon hen. Though while checking ‘her’ we noticed she developed a two inch chest beard and that her horn is starting to slowly...

Never had these kind of colored silkies before, only ever had blue, white and black! Any clue as to what these guys will come out to be? 🤗

Our silkie hatched three ‘Mille fleur’ eggs, but only one has the typical coloration, the other two are more cream, any clues to what these other two babies could be? 🤗

So the chick not only has an exposed brain,(I’m assuming that’s what it is), no eyes and is missing half his top beak...is the best option to put the chick down?