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Is anyone in the mood for a game of hens or roos? These are school hatching program chicks - about 4.5 - 5 weeks old. There’s one very obvious roo, and 1 (I believe) obvious girl - but 4 I’m undecided. Thoughts?

So, any idea on what they might be? The hatching service said they have New Hampshire, Lohmanns, Leghorns and Australorps?

Hey 😊. I received these chicks from a school hatching program - they are about 3 weeks old here. Can anyone tell me if they are Lohmann Brown cockerels or if they could be leghorn chicks? Thanks.

It’s unanimous 😂.

So sad. Maybe he’ll be one of those miracle roos who never crows - fully understanding the human neighbourhood dilemma haha. 😂😂😂

Hey everyone. I was given this lovely coronation sussex at 12 weeks old. ‘She’ had a large comb but it was very pale in colour - no wattles. ‘Her’ feathering didn’t set off any alarms. But here we are at 18 weeks and ‘she’ has been molting and I think I am seeing male hackle feathers and...

I do like the idea of natural remedies 😃

Thanks for the many tips!! I haven’t yet encountered any lice or mites - just flies in the yard. I’ll try Amazon for some of your ideas.

So today we had a lovely warm day here in Melbourne and the flies came out in great number!! I have a fly trap in my chicken yard - Envirosafe. It’s working but I can’t decide if it’s attracting more flies than I would otherwise have. Anyway, Summer is approaching and I was hoping for some...

Hmm yes, my girls are being less than hospitable!! But, I’ve set her up with her own little coop with food and water - she goes for the water but right by the feed. Perhaps she just needs time to settle in.

I was gifted a lovely 12 week old coronation sussex. She thoroughly enjoys pecking and foraging around the yard and will eat grain mix that I scatter. However, she doesn’t seem to understand the concept of eating from a bowl or eating chicken feed - she looks right past it and goes back to...

Thanks 😃

I guess I’ll know for sure I’m coming weeks. I was very confident given there were definite boys - easy to compare against eachother. But now the boys are gone I don’t have that direct comparison advantage haha.

The last pic was for comparison 😃. I have read that Australorps generally don’t have ‘late bloomers’?

Hey everyone! I had a small flock of 8 Australorps 12 weeks old. On Sat we surrendered 5 roos. They all had lovely roo tails and big red wattles and combs - 2 or 3 were crowing. I put a post on a FB page about how peaceful things seem to be with just the 3 girls now and I have had a few...

I’ve been away from this post for a while. So, I started carrying a thin garden rake in with me and I gently let it enter ahead of me and use it to gently keep them at distance - works fantastic!! I also just had to surrender my cockerels. Of my 8 hatched chicks, 5 were roos, at now...

Oh a bucket is a good idea!

It’s not cute anymore - not now I stepped on a toe! I do keep walking through - I don’t stop - but they are winning because I’m nervous about hurting them.

I laughed when you said they’ve trained me well lol!! My husband would say the same I’m sure 😃

I have 8 young, 10 week old chickens. They are outside in an enclosed yard 12 metres x 3 metres. No matter how quiet I try to be, they always know when I’m opening the gate and run to meet me. I have to open the gate and squeeze in such a way as to ensure a. they don’t get struck by the gate...