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Hi Just needing to check, these two chickens are the same age, same breed, have been told they are barnevelders, hatched from barnevelder eggs, they are both around 20weeks old, the one we believe is the girl looks to have some ?sickle feathers, but it has been raining, sort of flooding as well...

https://www.backyardchickens.com/gallery/album/view/id/6088733/user_id/95201#page=0&sort=display_order We are Hoping our little white EE, Snowy is a girl, we have popped a couple of photo's of her hopefully and the Barnevelder as well, it is a bit slower at feathering up than the boy the...

there are 14 chicks altogether, the little black silkie adopted them when they were 3 weeks old, she sleeps in with them spreading her wings over some of them, they are almost s big as her now and most will be looking for new homes, we will keep a couple ee's and depending on their breed we are...

We think this one is a girl but is it a barnevelder like we were told what was in the egg? This next one is obviously a boy, but breed?? This next little one we are pretty sure is a girl, she is our mix breed between one of our Australorps and a silver spangled hamburg we had for a few...

We have some little chicks that are now around 8 weeks old, there are four left, we had some lice problems which have been treated and are still being treated from some birds getting into the flock and they attacked the chicks really bad so they have been vasolined and treated along with all the...

Just wondering if anyone can help with our silkies as to what quality type they are, the black one is from a show breeder, she is having some bad fluff days due to the rain and she went under the pen and got some webs on, then we sprinkled lice powder on her, don't know how to tell quality...

We have a little chick that our broody hens are raising, she has 4 others that although slowish to start feathering up are now almost fully feathered at 4 and 1/2 weeks old, then the small one that is still the size of a day old chick is still running around with her, this chick was starting to...

Okay, well one of our lavender araucana's/ EE has gone broody just in the last week, she is sitting on some plastic eggs and steals eggs off the other hens when they lay them, we have a batch due to hatch this Saturday and are now in lock down with the incubator, she is only 9 months old and her...

Here are our chicks that hatched 3 weeks ago, one is almost twice the size of the others. They are all similar, meant to be barnevelders and welsummers, there is one little darker chick, but she/he wouldn't keep still long enough for a photo, but it has a dark triangle on top of it's head...

Okay, we have around 48 eggs in the incubator due to hatch 22nd October, there are bantam Araucana (rumpless), large rumpless Araucana's, Barnevelders, Welsummers, leghorns (brown), ancona's and some mixed lot with lavender Araucana/silver spangled hamburg, australorp/hamburg, and RIR/hamburg...

Hi we have hatched some chicks out, the breeder gave us some barnevelder, welsummer, RIR, Australorp, and 1 egg that hatched was from our Australorp hen and a silver spangled hamburg which we now think we identified, we can identify the RIR, but the welsummers and barnevelder, I have no idea...

We are trying to find the breeds of some of these chicks, we know the RIR, and the Australorps, but not sure on the rest, one chick is crossed between one of our RIR's and a silver spangled hamburg, not too sure which one, we are thinking it is the little yellowish/red with the black lines on...

Well, this incubation has been very anxiety filled, on day 4 I went to work and left hubby and teenagers in charge, big mistake, came home to find incubator turned off, it was very quickly turned back on, and there was tears and telling off and then lecturing, wasn't sure if they were saved...

Hi, just asking a question, we are on day 8-9 of incubation, I candled the eggs this arvo and there are chicks moving in them, but he air sac is quite large, it is taking up at least a 1/4 of the egg, will this hurt the chicks, we are in a dry spell here, and I am having to add water regularly...

This is our first Blue egg. Beautiful But did this one lay it or was it the lighter baby, they were born 2 weeks apart, the lighter first and the darker last. We have also got some eggs in the incubator, there are mixed breeds with something with the initials LA, and barnveils (or...

We have two light sussex chickens we hatched, just can't tell if they are boys or girls, there is only 2 of them, they are 21 weeks old. there is a photo of both of them together, one has a small wattle than the other, they are the same size. Thanks.