I am fond of any animals who have more hair than they should. They might be a little too young or disheveled to tell but watching my boyfriend chase them around the new coop was worth it to try 🤣. Their names just go with my tendency to call everything dark colored "he" and everything light...
I only bought the Americaunas sexed, with the bantams. Then 2 silver laced wyandotte, 2 buff lace polish, 2 gold laced polish from a local hatchery. They were all straight run, I was originally planning for them to go in seperate coops, but building the first took so long I just put them...
Thank you. I don't really have a preference for hatching or brooding I just figured if I bought straight run chicks I'd probably end up with roos as well so I tried to buy them in numbers that would minimize fights or injuries.
Thank you so much! Can you tell me, if a bantam is a roo will the same ratio of about 10 hens to 1 roo apply? I have 4 Americauna hens, 2 wyondotte hens, and 4 polish of unknown gender currently. They seem to stay flocked separately, with the Polish and Wyondottes in one group and the others in...
These are from my first round of chicks. 1st round is from TSC. Had a pair that looked like chipmunks and a pair that were white. Lost one chipmunk and one white turned pretty grey. I'm pretty positive the grey one is a roo. I have no clue other than that.
Long time lurker and finally bit the bullet. Bought 8 chicks (lost one bantam) and two weeks after bought 6 more. The coop took a lot longer than anticipated. So... that was mistake. In total I think we spent about a billion dollars, have about 700 leftover pieces and tools and 79 gallons of...