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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...

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...

I have 8 black bantam Cochins 4 cockerels and 4 pullets. I intend on breeding them to the SOP but some of them carry some pretty interesting genes. There father was a black silked cochin roo there mothers were a mottled Cochin bantam and what I assume is a frizzed calico Cochin. (I’ll attach...

I have a RIR I got from southern states. It has a larger comb but no wattel. I know this breed develops faster I just want to know if this is normal for a pullet or not

I have an 8 week old cochin cockerel that has this weird leg issue. Is it splay leg that I didn’t catch when he hatched or did he dislocate it? Is his leg salvageable? Could it kill him?

I ordered some chicks from Meyer hatchery and I’ve been able to figure out who’s who except for these three. There are two BBS Andalusians and my extra chick who I think is an australorp. They all have pink feet and black legs. Chick #1 Chick#2 Chick #3

Took the chicks out of the brooder today🥰

One of my six week old cochins is acting strange. I just got back from vacation and I noticed he kept hiding in the corner of the brooder I just went outside and he was laying like he was dead but once I picked him up he perked up. He has a small scratch or something on his comb and I’m...

I recently got my hands on a dozen cochin hatching eggs. Some will be frizzled some will be smooth feathered and I think some will have the silk feather type. I need some names for the little babies, so far I’ve come up with Albert (Einstein) and Miss Frizzle. Here’s a picture of there parents...

I've got a dozen frizzled Cochin hatching eggs in my incubator, three are duds so I've got 9 fertile eggs. I've seen some thing that say you need to put them on lock down on day 16 which I've just remembered is today. The lady I bought the eggs from told me hers have always hatched closer to day...

I have two 7 week old EE's that I'm pretty sure are both cockerels that I hatched out on Christmas. I also have three chicks I bought from rural king on January 27th. I've got the smaller chicks in my brooder and the cockerels in a bucket both in the garage. This is working fine in the mean time...

So I have four 6 week old chicks. I’m 99% sure I sexed them right I’m just double checking. #1 Marjorie Evans (EE) Pullet #2 Bette (Light Brahma) Pullet #3 Fran (Golden laced Wyandotte) Pullet #4 Sylvia (silver laced Wyandotte) Cockerel What do you think?

So this is my baby boy Romeo. He had a black amerucana sister (Juliet) she passed away. I bought him as a blue amerucana to breed with his sis for blue and black. But that went away. Before I splurged on another breeding he I wanted to make sure I got the right one. I’ve been wondering if he’s a...

I have yet to see a tread deticated to the wonderful Taylor Swift! I know you are out there come all Swifty’s to the official BYC swifty thread!!!!!

I found an egg without a shell today. Is this just something that will happen? My hens are mostly free range and they have oyster strong feed.

Today I checked 4 chickens into my local show! I have my RIR, Buff Orpington, Splash Marans, and Blue laced red Wyandotte. I’m super excited to see how well they do. This isn’t an APA show so I don’t have to enter standers breed birds. This will be a great experience for my first show!

I have 5 17-18 week old pullets there developing combs surely but veryyyyyyyy slowly. I have a pea combed one a rose combed one and a firbo so I have no clue where they are in the process. I’m going crazy I’m on the brink of madness. Help!

Ok heres the deal the pull of cute little silkies has gotten to me I have found myself scrolling through pictures and variations of silkies. I want them sooooooo much. For my spring order I want to have either splash silkie, white silkie and porcelain d'uccle or splash silkie, porcelain and...

I posted a thread a while back about a fox problem I had. It attacked a few time injuring 4 birds and taking 3. After it took the third hen it didn’t come back for a while until one night the last week of June it attacked both my sex links but didn’t take them. Then about a week after that a 13...

I have this mutt chick who looks super cool. She has iridescent black feathers with an almost partridge pattern on her back and an almost spangled pattern on her chest. I love her back pattern and I was wondering what it is and how to breed it. I hatched her out from my BSL roo and my polish...