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This year for the first time I have a BR I just can't tell if it is going to be a roo or not. It is just whiter than everything else. It is 7 weeks old. It had a tough start in that it lost sight in one eye due to some chicken pecking at 4 days. There was a period after that before it...

I have never had Brahma roos, but I think odd have finally caught up with me. I have one buff and one dark who are feathering out in a way I have not had happen before. I know that there are some theories on feathering and sex. It is way to early to tell their sex (2 weeks). But can you...

Never done BLRW before, so have no history or previous pictures to compare to. What do you all think roo or pullet?

This barred rock is giving me pause. It should be easy but hmmmmm. It is 6 weeks old, but the comb is pinking up too soon, while the feather color says girl. Looking for your opinions.

I have a chicken who has decided nothing can be in a nest box. She spends hours daily kicking scratching out what ever we put in the box. She does this to the point that eggs are now getting broken in the nest box. (3 out of 6 eggs were broken yesterday) She has always been a bit of a...

I have a 6 month Austrolorpe who has had loose stools for about a month. She lays 4 or 5 days a week, is healthy, heavy, red combed, busy hen. Truely no signs of distress or health problems. She lives with 5 other hens who have regular looking and formed poop. They free-range around the...

Suddenly this last week I have been getting no eggs except from my one renegade hen who refuses to laying in the nest box. The nest boxes are completely bare.(they are filled with the usual shavings) I have 6 hens, 4 who are laying and suddenly no eggs. The two non-layers are 26 and 23...

I have a bird who arrived in the box via mail from the hatchery, with two "broken/curled" toes. She has done well up until this week, when I think her weight just caused her foot to "break down" (she is 24 weels old). She now has a black spot on the bottom of her foot where it appears she...

My EE has just started laying and she is laying small eggs. I have had girls who laid small eggs occassionally when getting started, but never had any who a couple weeks later was still laying small eggs. Is she going to be a small egg layer?

Free 17 week old partridge rock rooster. Don't have room for him. Would make a great addition to a flock or a great dinner.

I decided that my need for a new larger coop and blending my existing ladies with the new ladies should happen all at once. I figured no one owned the new coop so it would make for a single upset of the hens & pecking order. So far very good, no major fluff ups. The older ladies are clearly...

You folks last saw this girl/boy a couple weeks ago and there was no consensus. I was sure by now I would know, but I am lost. Can you take another look and let me know your thoughts. It is a McMurray EE and 9.5 weeks old. It is my smallest bird, and definately not high on the the pecking...

I still go back and forth on these two EE. Some days they look like a roo and other days no so sure...maybe pullet. I posted them a couple a weeks ago and the consensus was out on them. I am hoping that we can get a little more insight, but am thinking you all are going to tell me to wait a...

Here is a chick I bought at a partridge rock pullet. I bought two of them and one developed slow and the other fast. I thought great one girl, one boy assuming the boy was the slow one to develop. Here is a 4 week old partridge rock. As you can see he is all roo. Lets hope the other...

Bird 1 Full body w/ legs - the one in the back is this bird's sibling Another body shot Bird 2 - sibling to bird 1 - This one looks at least like an EE rather than just a mutt. I know trying to sex Easter Eggers is sort like trying to tell folks at the pound what the dog might...

We have seen lots of ventilation pictures, of square/rectangular openings with sliding or flop down doors. But I am sure that many of you have tried other contraptions i.e drier vents, soffit vents etc, Pat has a great page about how much ventilation and how important it is. There are great...

Do any of you cover your windows in the coop at night or in the winter? I used to have a small coop just right for 2 or 3 ladies and they had small windows that in the winter we screwed a second layer of Plexiglas over. This worked great My new coop has a 24x36 double pane insulated window...

My late layer is driving me nuts. She just started laying last week. All my hens lay in the nest boxes without problems. This hen will sit on the nest box for hours and then get up and leave to lay her egg! Coop confined just means on the the floor. Run confine just means in the run...

Well you all know about my 42 week 5 day wait for a laying Chantecler. Here is her next challenge. She will spend hours (2-3) sitting on the nest box....no egg. Then she will walk out of the coop and around the yard and she will drop an egg and keep on going. (I don't know what she thinks...

I was beginning to think that she was never going to lay!! I have had this lady from her hatch, and knew exactly how old she was. She started squatting about 5 days before her first egg. This picture was taken the day she started laying. She has for all practical purposes no waddle and no...