Okay, here are my 2 Delawares. They are standard hatchery chicks, so Joy has a lot of cream in her feathers and most of the feathers are grey near the body and Peace is almost all white. They are 16 weeks old, so still young.
Joy
and expressing her oppinion of being picked up, put on a...
Here are my 2 Delawares (hatchery "pet quality") The first 2 are the smaller, whiter one and the second 2 are of the one that I thought was a boy for a while. Both are 6 weeks.
thanks Speckledhen and Lotsapaints. I'll hold off on sending "her" to the farm for a couple weeks. Hmm, that would mean that I have 7 hens and I'm only allowed 6. Hopefully they will keep running around enough that no body will be able to count them. I have 2 speckled sussex, 2 golden SL...
Okay, going to the experts. I have a 5 week old chick that I've assumed for the last 3 weeks is a cockeral. I have 2 Delawares that are the same age and this one is bigger than the other one and has a lot of "smut" on the back which I understood to be an indicator of roo-ness. Additionally...