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No new pics -- Just a question! If I don't have crowing yet and no one is acting really rooster-ish and I'm not seeing large spurs (ETA: they all have little spurs but since I've been eating eggs from them for a couple weeks now, there are obviously hens out there with spurs!), is it a safe...

Quote: I'm going to try to get a better picture of that one. The hawk was hanging out in the trees and that was making all of them edgier than normal -- I'm just thankful they have the good sense to scurry toward cover at the sound of the hawk, even though they don't range far to begin with...

Quote: I hardly know anything about anything! I got the chickens as day-olds with my father, who unfortunately had a stroke and just passed away. So now I have 7 chickens of unknown gender and I'm kinda making it up as I go. I am hoping that I have all hens or, at most, one roo! Do they...

ETA: At this point, they're about a week shy of being three months old. I can haz pictures! They were more-or-less cooperative this morning -- they've taken to hanging out under this roof that extends in front of the house and under a lilac bush and other bushes under the roof. I have a...

Quote: They don't stand still! I try to get them to cooperate and they just are never motionless. I'm still trying to get some clean images to post here so that you good folks can give me an idea. When will it generally be clear, age-wise?

Around April 25th, I bought 7 day-old chicks. They were, in theory, all girls, but I was expecting one boy just because of the nature of sexing day-olds. Four Barred Rock, three Rhode Island Reds. EVERYONE is developing nubs/spurs and no one seems to have overly large combs and while I'm sure...