Chiming in - we have an 8 x 12' shed converted to a chicken coop. For the floor and lower walls, nest box and poop board surfaces I painted on several coats of BlackJack Rubr-Coat 57, which is a flexible waterproof rubber flooring and more durable than sheets of vinyl flooring. WORKS AMAZINGLY...
Thanks so much everyone!! Here are some updated photos. No new behavioral clues - no crowing or laying eggs but the entire flock is not laying due to the season.
Anyone want to update thoughts? Thanks!!
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He’s 16 weeks old. No roo behavior, a tiny single comb and no spurs, but man, those tail feathers and coloring sure look male. Thoughts??
DF60424A-B5D8-47E2-9D0B-CCDC8FB5693E by HollywoodHillsHens posted Oct 25, 2017 at 9:20 AM9E84C7A5-BFEE-4BDA-8BCD-37689710EF38 by HollywoodHillsHens posted...
I'm finishing an 8 x 12' lean-to style prefab wood shed that I have been modding into a chicken coop, but I need to actively ventilate it because I found out it gets HOT. I've got a large (30x30")solar panel and a deep cell marine battery already installed for the poultry door (overkill I know)...
Got up this morning to find one of our 5-week-old chicks lying down lethargic and breathing rapidly on the straw brooder floor. All of the other babies were fine and active. The waterer had tipped overnight and I refilled it - the other babies went to drink, but the patient did not. The patient...
Everyone is behaving fine, lively and eating / drinking - but still this worries me a lot. Chicks are indoors / sequestered and have had a little contact with bedding from my 2 month olds but nobody so far has been ill. should I give them medicated feed? Any other ideas? Will it run its course?
Ok, the egg is a Welsummer or light marans egg - and the roosters in the pen are Welsummer, deep olive egger, sizzle, Cochin, cream legbar and Easter egger. So maybe a welsummer-sizzle cross??
Hello - I have a clutch of 8 eggs incubating in a Brinsea that are three days past their due date. There was a power outage a while back and the eggs cooled off in the second week for about a day, but the embryos survived and I expected they'd be late - but not THIS late!
I candled the eggs...
Hey gang,
I'm a novice at raising chickens, and have been "playing along at home" to try to get better at sexing the photos on BYC.
But I'm consistently stumped by the combs!! Some of the "roos" seem to have such teeny tiny combs at even 12 weeks of age that I'm shocked!
Can someone help me...
Thanks for the replies, everybody!! I'll post more photos of the "things" as they get a bit older. Holding off on naming them until I can get a sense of their gender - don't want to get particularly attached to a roo...
Can you suss out the gender of these two olive egger chickens? Hatched them in-house. Any explanations would also be awesome - thanks!!
This is "Thing 1"
And here's the sibling, "Thing 2" (the blue one - we already know the 5 week old white one is 90% a pullet )
Long shot of Thing 2:
It would be worth worming her before you cull, especially given her "challenged" tush. Worms, among other health issues, are known to interrupt laying cycles.
Agreed that hens don't lay every day - our Cochins are on an "every other day" cycle, and even our power-laying Australorps take a day...
These are two BCMs that come from a line of "Floridian" chickens, where some of the hens sport larger combs than normal (I have seen one of these "mamas" when I went to pick up the babies).
So what do you think? Are these possible candidates for the "big hair hen club," or simply roos in plain...