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Quote: Thank you EVERYBODY! I feel much better now. I just didn't want her to get attached even more to this firecracker of a chicken that was obviously male to everybody who knows how to tell. I'll leave you guys alone for a while. I have a chicken tractor to build. Need to go scavenge for...

Quote: Thank you guys, I know this is a repost but my daughter is getting attached to all the birds and I need to get rid of any extra males before it gets too painful for her to see them go. She has named all of them. *sigh*

I have had so many people say one way or another...rooster or hen. I'm no closer myself after all the back and forth. One thing is certain though, she (or he) has a personality that defies all I have seen. Totally freaked out. All my others just mill about when I open the cage; she (or he) goes...

Quote: But if this chick turns out to be a full sized male barred rock, and not a female, he would definitely cause trouble for the rest of the girls who are all banty, I'm guessing. I just hate to get rid of her/him if she is most likely female, but if it's the other way around, *sigh* I...

Oh, and if it IS a female, if she is a standard size while the others are bantam, will she cause trouble for them? Like push them around?

Quote: If everyone still thinks I have a boy here, I'd really like to move "Spaz" out before too much longer.

My neighbor up the road wants a rooster. He wants to be able to hear it crow in the morning, and for it to be a pet. He says he only wants one chicken, and that'd be the rooster. I have always heard chickens are social animals, and they don't do well alone. Is that true with grown males? Would...

Quote: Thanks guys! I love looking at them. My granddad had "dominekkers" as he called them, and they are my favorite breed and color. Yes, I noticed the big white spot when we got her. I also noticed her legs, and they are VERY dark all across the front. I guess I was hoping the dark legs...

We initially got nine banty barred rock chicks. Five of them turned out to be roos, and we let three of those roos go. The remaining chicks have grown and all about the same size now. You can see four of them in the first pic, all about the same size, same pattern (nice even stripes of black and...

Only bumping this one because someone said they would like to know how these turned out sex-wise. They are five weeks old now and their sex is more obvious due to the barring patters and darker/lighter feathering. Speckledhen was correct in both her picks, and others were pretty accurate too. We...

Quote: Boy is that a load off! Thanks, friend.

Quote: Ha-HA! A fellow cacher! Maybe one day our paths will cross. As for the babies, I had thought that the one on the lower left is a roo as well, he has already starting attempting to crow!

Have my babies outside for the first time tonight. On the patio in a large cage covered by a blanket on three sides with a lamp on the fourth. Temp will get down to 57 tonight according to local weather. Chicks are four weeks old and there are eight in the cage. Think they'll be okay with the temps?

How can we prevent this from happening? We have the kind of feeders that have the circular openings that you pour the feed into, then snap the lid on. If we fill it up at the beginning of the day, within an hour, they have thrown half the feed out of it and it falls between the wire mesh to the...

Okay some of our guys (and gals) have feathered out a bit, and our kids have named them. We now are certain that the breeder we got them from was MISTAKEN when he said they came from the same hatching. (He said they were within 2 days age apart.) The reason we are pretty certain of this, is that...

Quote: You mean, congratulations...it's time to start fattening them up!

Two of our eight barred rocks (the ones we are fairly certain are cockerels based on coloring) have started doing a weird thing. They will be strutting along, walking and looking from side to side, then open their mouth wide and stretch their neck forward. Nothing comes out (food or noise) but...

Quote: True enough. As for size, it was kind-of hard to tell measurements based on the photo. If we assume to privacy fence behind it is 7 feet high (like ours) then that coop is maybe 4' square at the bottom and 4' high at the center beam. The run looks 4' wide by 10' long and maybe 3-4'...

Okay, ever since I saw this photo, I have been in love with this design. My worry, is that it will not be enough space for my flock of chicks to grow to adulthood in. Right now, we have seven birds; all bantams. I plan on making a tractor for them as well, so this will just be for when we are...

I've been playing Zelda since NES came out. I may be 36 years old, but Skyward Sword is gonna ROCK!