delaware

I’ve posted my sweet Delawares a couple times at different ages. They’re roughly 11 weeks old now and I REALLY want to finally give them names 😁 What does everyone think?

Hi! I have four babies that I want to play hen or roo with :) Two Delawares, at LEAST 9 weeks old but I don’t know for sure how much older than that they might be. I think they were at least a week old when I got those two. The two buffs are 8 weeks old. So idk what the buffs are, they were...

Got two Delawares a few weeks ago, just curious if anyone has thoughts on this one’s gender. I don’t know exactly how old they are, I’m guessing they were about a week old when I brought them home which would put them around four weeks now. I only put pictures of one because the other won’t pose...

Ok this is an odd request to make, but here goes. I'm in southeast Delaware. I have many Homing Pigeons, but one is a special needs...sweet Ziggy, with the zig-zag cross beak. It's so bad she cannot feed herself. So I hand feed her daily 2x a day, about a teaspoon of pigeon grain, some grit...

Our Delawares are 11 wks old. One has slightly larger wattles and tail. Any chance this is a too?

Trying to help a friend figure out the sex. Bird was bought as a straight run chick from a feed store. 12 week old Delaware. I’m leaning towards cockerel but that is still a small pink comb…

Bought these 6 chicks May 30th from tractor supply. No labels were there so I had no idea what I was getting. The all were yellow but two had a single black dot and seemed a tad bigger than the other four. They have gotten whiter and whiter with a couple black spots showing up and have grown so...

I have 4 Delwares about 12/13 weeks old. I keep going back and forth on if I have 1 rooster (black tail feathers) or 3 roosters (speckled tail feathers). Help please!

Hi, trying to start new flock with sex-linked hybrids. Delawares x Rhode island reds. Several years ago, i read an article BYC about a breeder that was improving their deleware flock for both eggs and meat. Anyone know the name and info of this breeder. Any recommendations on excellent...

I'm hoping to find some people to help me with sex linked chickens. Would a Cream Legbar x Barred rock hen make sex linked chicks? Any idea what they would look like? I'm hoping for colorful roosters. Cream Legbar x Delaware? Cream Legbar x Silver Laced Wyandotte? Cream Legbar x Columbian...

I had to share this! Every time I see this chick, I have to laugh! 🤣 Her eyebrows make her look so mean & it just looks too funny on such a cute little fuzzy baby. This batch of chicks has some very cute coloring, but I've never seen something like this! She has one on each side. lol Have you...

Hey all! Looking to crowdsource some opinions here. This little one was hatched at the beginning of June so we’re coming up to the six month mark and I’m still not sure of their gender! Looks to be the offspring between my buff silkie roo, Peter, and a Delaware. No crowing, no Spurs, no mating...

Tried searching for a breakdown between the two and didn’t find anything… so apologies if this is a repeat. What are the differences between a Delaware and Columbian Wyandotte (hen)? Visually they look very similar. I’m sure there are small characteristics that make it obvious which is which...

I’d love to hear anyone’s experiences with good quality(not hatchery) Wyandottes- and hybrids as well! Photos, growth rates, average finishing age & weights, are all greatly appreciated as well. I live in a neighborhood and have gotten along well with my sweet Delaware rooster who only ever...

Don't DM me telling me it's "normal" for Mr Delaware to be raping my 17wk old egg girls - he has to go asap before he gets himself shot. He's beautiful, he's a great rooster. I really wanted to keep him. He only crows once a day, then shuts up. He's very friendly, comes when you whistle, and...

As I’ve been researching which DP to get for meat birds, I keep coming across people saying to make sure to buy from a breeder. It sounds like some hatcheries are good, but breeders (breeding for meat quality) should be better. I’ve searched on other websites and here on BYC, on Facebook and...

I just got this Delaware rooster and plan to hatch chicks out of him later this summer or next spring. One cross in particular I’d like to try out is my cream legbar hen. She lays a nice blue egg, is a very productive layer, good size, and has an all-around great disposition for free ranging...

Hello! I have a lovely 12ish week old pullet, Sophie, that I got about 6 weeks ago. She is a Delaware x White Leghorn from a gal who wanted to see what that cross would be like. Sophie has 3 brothers from the same mom and dad and I recently was talking to the girl I got her from and she's...

(1) Are you new to chickens / when did you first get chickens? I raised chickens in rural Connecticut in the late 1980s, but stopped when I moved back to Chicago. I restarted the chicken obsession in 2017 when one of my daughter's school friends had baby chicks but had no idea how to care for...