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[imnukensc]

Yes, she is a BR. The terribly out of focus picture makes her look much better than she really is. She is terribly ratty looking right now with molting.

 

[Dinosaur Village Keeper]

That's one beautiful Barred Rock! or some other breed? can't see her too well

I thought you were talking about my black and white chicken! Haha! I think all of my chickens are beautiful just because they are mine.

 

[mymilliefleur]

Thank you for everyone’s response! The pics are just in the past few days and they all look so much healthier than when I got them. I am very happy about that. I will get the meat bird food for them. They are such pigs! As much as they have to eat outside, I wouldn’t think they would eat so much food. I let them eat as much as they want in their coop. They eat in the morning and they all go back in the coop around noon for lunch. Chickens are just adorable! But eggs would make them even cuter... Oh - we do have golf balls in the nests and some pine shavings with hay on top. Also, all of the fields have been mowed down from what you see in the coop picture, so they can’t hide eggs out there.View attachment 1950582 View attachment 1950583 View attachment 1950584 View attachment 1950585 View attachment 1950581

Your birds actually look really good. They are not all mixes either, the B/W birds are Barred Rocks, and the white bird is a Silkie rooster. Like some of the other posters have pointed out, it's getting late in the year, and with so little daylight you may not see any eggs until after new years. Especially since your hens are still settling into a new environment. It sounds like you are doing a great job with them!

 

[Dinosaur Village Keeper]

Wanted to give a quick update: it turns out my chickens were all very young, hence the lack of eggs! The person I got them from lied about everything. I would never recommend buying older chickens from someone you don’t know. How I know they were young:
- They nearly doubled in size! They are huge now. Maybe I just feed them too much! A tremendous and quite fast growth spurt happened to them several weeks before they began laying. Again, this could be from them being so poorly taken care of, and because I switched to the higher protein feed as recommended.
- Their combs and wattles began growing rapidly just before they started laying eggs.
- Each of them began allowing the rooster to mate with them about a week before laying their eggs.
- They are nicer and let me pet them as they became layers.
I still have one that is small and I’ve never seen her on the nest. Because the rooster has become mean, I don’t get to observe or enjoy the hens over the past couple of weeks. I wanted to post updated pictures to show the difference in the chickens for those wondering how they change just before laying (probably the change from about 6-7 or 8 months old), but the rooster attacks me if I go near them. The rooster will be removed soon so I can have what I signed up for - a backyard I can enjoy. Let me know if anyone wants before/after pics and I will take them when mean roo is gone.

 

[Sheltiepawz]

I want before and after pics! I have pullets 20 weeks old right now! I love my girls and we are anxious for our first eggs!

glad you rescued them from a bad situation!!!

 

[Dinosaur Village Keeper]

I’m going to do my best with the photos. First and second pics I think are the same chicken before and then after she began laying. Third and fourth is before and after of a different chicken. The lightening is different, so you can’t tell in these pics, but I think the comb and wattles got darker too. When you press on their back’s, they actually settle down in just a little bit, where as before they were laying, they squalked and ran off like little brats. I wish I could get better pics, but my mean rooster is still here, being mean, and he yells at them to get away from me.

 

[chrissynemetz]

Thanks for the update!! Your girls are so pretty!

 

[Sheltiepawz]

Very pretty!! Wow the comb growth is even more than I thought it would be!