If anyone is interested in an update, here is the mystery bird all grown up. (~26 weeks) The only easter egger pullet out of all of them. She laid her first greenish blue egg last weekend . I still think that looks like the aforementioned red on the shoulder/wing, but she is laying eggs and...
The bus to freezer camp leaves tomorrow. Any last hope of these two being hens, or should they be on there way too? They are about 10 weeks old now. On a side note, what is the deal with the comb on the dark one. It is not the same as the rest of the easter eggers? Any reason for that, or...
Ok, I think I pretty much understand what everyone is looking at in the comb, but I am completely missing what to look for in the colors when sexing these EEs.
Thanks for any help.
The beak started showing around 2 weeks and has gotten a bit worse every week, and now has seemed to stabilize. He makes a mess eating but seems to do it well enough. I've experimented with adding feed to yogurt and he seems to like that as well.
On a side note, since I might have a hard...
And here's number 10.... besides for the crooked beak, he/she? is doing amazingly well. Same size if not bigger then the others. Any ideas on this one. I assume another easter egg cockerel?
Also, here is another picture of the head in number 7....do I have any hope? If not, that makes...
Last time I trust TSC! I guess the "chicken guy" at TSC didn't have a clue what he was talking about. It even says on my receipt 8 pullets. I intend to get my money back but that's not really the point. I was hoping to have decent size flock. I can probably buy some mature hens, but I...
So a little bit of background....I've been looking to get a backyard flock for a while and had spent a lot of time researching and reading this website. When I was in a TSC for something else, I saw the chick days and decided it was time to go for it. I decided I would get 10 week old chicks...