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So not only did my chicken start laying eggs this week, but her very first egg was fertile! Woot!

So I haven't kept up with this thread but I have to update... I GOT MY FIRST EGG!!!! First egg from my own chickens, that I hatched myself on my birthday. Can you tell I am excited? I am betting so. You cannot tell from the picture but it is a green egg, I was kind of hoping for blue being...

Thanks for the info! Closing on my home August 7th which is why I am crossing my fingers - I only kept 2 hens from the last hatch so I need to hatch again. Maybe my parents will let me keep my rooster at their house for a couple weeks after the move. By that time hopefully the older hens will...

Cool! They have been living next to the adult hens for a while now, going to allow the adult hens over to the pullet area tonight or early next week then check for fertility later in the week. I haven't seen them try to mate with the pullets yet but I don't spend too much time out there...

Hey everyone - looking for your input on if Roosters hatched this last Cinco de Mayo that have begun to crow will also likely be mating or start mating soon? 11-12 weeks old now and have been crowing for a few weeks. I am interested in breeding them back to some Red Stars we have at my parents...

Our boys are learning to crow already, have been working on it for about 2 weeks now. The hens raised from the cinco de mayo hatch have been by far the friendliest chickens we have ever had. They are all part white leghorn/ameraucana and some other mixes. This little hen is by far my...

So 3 girls, 7 boys? DOH!

My Cinco de Mayo chicks are now ~5 weeks old. Too early to separate the boys from the girls? They are Americauna/Leghorn/Black australorp mixes so will have large pea combs. What do you think about Cockerel vs pullets of these 10 chicks? #1 about 99% sure this is a cockerel, he has a large 3...

I was hoping for at least one of the pure black chicks to be Roos anyhow. I was just amazed that it may be able to be determined day 1 based on a large comb. Now I am just crossing my fingers that out of the 5 black chicks 2 of them are females . I really want to give one of them to my...

Well at just 16 days old I think I can already tell a few who are going to be Roos . I think this boy might have even been the first one out of the shell who other people said on day 1 that he was a boy... His mixed Pea comb is already turning pink at 16 days old which was surprising...

Me as well. We had several neighborhood cats that would frequent our chicken coop back when they were baby chicks. Luckily they were all locked away. A few months ago one of them scratched our dogs eye and he nearly lost it. He had to have his eye surgically repaired. Needless to say if I...

An even easier way to test out what I just tried to explain is to use the chicken genetics calculator here: http://kippenjungle.nl/kruising.html Using a RIR x Barred rock hen, the typical BSL crossing create one cross resulting in the barred Roosters and unicolor black hens. Using the...

I am in the same boat as you! Just trying to figure it out myself. I got most of the information from here: https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/261208/sex-linked-information From reading about the genetics of Barring in chickens I'll try to explain what "I think" is happening with black sex...

From what I have read on the subject, the Barred hen passes on the barring gene on the Z chromosome(essentially like our X chromosome). Females carry ZW chromosomes, opposite from mammals where the male carries the heterozygous sex chromosomes XY. Because the barring gene is on the Z...

I found homes for 3 of the chicks that had traits I didn't want to keep breeding with. Two of my black chicks actually look like they are barring: I wasn't expecting barring out of WLeghorn/Americauna rooster over WLeghorn/Australorp hens but from what I have read white leghorns carry...

I didn't realize people stole chickens/goats/etc. Wouldn't have thought there was much market in selling them. I guess the goats or larger/more expensive livestock... but chickens? I hope the only thing I will have to protect my mutt chickens from will be raccoons or loose dogs that happen...

My last chick to hatch who spent a couple of days in the shell after pipping looks like he has a bit of splayed/spraddle leg. He is a runt compared to his brothers/sisters and has a bit of trouble walking. Here are some pictures of the little guy: Is it bad enough to splint? Should I...

Alright people it's time to play straight comb vs pea comb again - because I am second guessing my own assessment of this little chick. These were hatching on May 4th and 5th. Chick #1 I think has a pea comb: Chick #2 definitely has a straight comb, I am uploading this one just for...

13 out of my 14 eggs that made it to lockdown have hatched! The last 4 eggs were kinda messy, the 14th egg didn't make it, on eggtopsy it seemed like she eviscerated her yoke sack and there may have even been internal organs outside of her body? Really wasn't sure what happened but it was...

WOOT . Thanks very much to you both for replying, that just means he or she is a definite keeper. Don't care which gender but I would almost prefer a boy.