Btw, the NN in the pics is named Candace, thanks to my 5 and 8 year old niece and nephew who are Phineas and Ferb fans. Apparently she has a really long neck? 😂
Thanks! I'll post updated pics of the cochins in a week or two once #6 becomes more obvious. I'm already excited that I don't have 4/6 cockerels (my usual luck, lol). 😁
And yes, one of my 2 California Greys is a bit suspicious. They were supposed to be pullets, but everyone knows how that goes. I think they've got some Leghorn genetics, which leads to larger combs, but we'll see...
Here are some pics of them. I've got a heat lamp on in the chick coop...
It's just been very gray and drizzly here for the past week+. I've been working on swamping out a couple of coops and pens and adding sand to help with mud and drainage. Here are close-up pics. They were not cooperative, and I didn't realize #1 was so blurry until I got inside, sorry...and...
I likely just need to give it another 2-3 weeks, and it'll become more obvious...but have you ever had a month-old chick bite and hang on in defense of its flock-mates?
I'm wondering what that will mean for its adult temperament, lol.
I'm a little suspicious about #6. It's got a little bit darker red on the wing...and I really doubt I got 6 pullets, lol.
And at least a couple are biters.
I picked up 6 bantam gold laced cochins on 4/6. So they're now about 6.5 weeks old. A lot of the cochin cockerels I've had in the past have been pretty quick to make themselves known. I'm not seeing any definite cockerels in this group...but I couldn't be lucky enough to get 6/6 pullets from...