I had a nasty BSL link cockerel would attack everyone in my family flew at faces at attacked legs it got so bad to a point where I was the only one who would go out to take care of them. I have three horror stories with him.
1. I had a hen with a canker sore that I needed to look at and she was...
So I have about 30 chicks right now give or take a few I have to count them again. The youngest are 2 weeks to 4 weeks to 8 weeks to 10 weeks. After predators wiped out my entire flock I fell victim to chicken math. So I have a two cream legbars and two hampbars all two weeks then I have about...
I’m starting to work with my Cochins and get some really good chicks from them. I mostly have the marans because I like the egg color and they do well in my local show
I’m gonna beg to differ because that looks like a red sex link pullet to me. They tend to start laying around four months so that explain the comb and lack of saddle/hackel feathers.
The first chicks coloring looked solid blue like the hen to me but the second chick reminded me more of the roosters coloring with the lighter blue in the shoulder then the darker around the wings and back.
So I bought two BBS Andalusians from Meyer hatchery they are both 4 weeks old so I noticed off the bat that they both had different shades of blue on them I thought they would grow out of it. But I took a closer look at them today and I think the darker one could be a cockerel. I’ve attached...
The only hen I’ve ever had go broody would only go broody in the winter. Absolutely refused to leave her nesting box. Once spring rolled around and I actually needed to set eggs she sauntered out of her box for the first time in months and a fox got her😢