Can someone help me to see the gender of my rescue chicken?

[black_cat]

Op, if you have any pictures of your balcony, that would be helpful.

 

[Dottie the Chicken]

The first picture is a commercial factory farm. OP could not take her chickens to a commercial farm because they do not take in outside chickens, due to bio-security issues. Any farm that OP took her chickens to would be a small farm or hobby farm, where chickens live on grass like yours do. Saying most farms abuse and mistreat their chickens is really disrespectful to small farmers who raise chickens humanely. It's commercial farms that abuse chickens, not every farm ever.

Thank you for saying that.

 

[chickenhappy1233]

Op, if you have any pictures of your balcony, that would be helpful.

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[DogAndCat36]

The first picture is a commercial factory farm. OP could not take her chickens to a commercial farm because they do not take in outside chickens, due to bio-security issues. Any farm that OP took her chickens to would be a small farm or hobby farm, where chickens live on grass like yours do. Saying most farms abuse and mistreat their chickens is really disrespectful to small farmers who raise chickens humanely. It's commercial farms that abuse chickens, not every farm ever.

I did not post that reply to the OP I posted that to another person that said that chickens are not pets.

 

[Eva2020]

Yes. I agree. But why say me and @DogAndCat36 are unfit to care for our birds? Mine live outside, and outside only. Doesn’t stop me from calling them pets.
If I misunderstood, I apologize.
I hope this can stay a friendly discussion, everyone!
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I meant it didn't sound like the OP was fit to care for those chickens... I think I misunderstood her situation though!

 

[JadeFarms]

There are also farms. My gram lived on a big farm when she was little. They killed old hens and killed the sick dogs. These farms still exist.

Okay but if the animals are not suffering they’re fine. Now every animal does deserve life, but first of all not all farm do that and second, almost all farms are not abusive. Its the companies and fighters that are.

 

[Scalrett0516]

If you could get a puppy exercise pen, some linoleum flooring, some dirt, some bird netting, some pine shavings, and some cardboard, you could probably rig up something to give them all day balcony access while having space to move around. What type of door do you have to your balcony? Do those material sound doable?

Hi, I’ve been reading about how to make a better home for my chicken and ur advice are so valuable!
I’m thinking about the same of letting the chicken have the whole balcony. The door on our balcony is quite sound doable.

 

[DogAndCat36]

Ok, many people seemed to have been misinterpreting this post.

I think that you are mistaken. They are animals that are domesticated by human beings. My chickens live in a coop. There are 14 chickens living fat and healthy. Safe from the cooking pot and safe from mistreatment. I am knowledgeable about almost everything that can happen to them, prolapsed vent, mites, fowl pox, Marek's disease, and even predators. Farm animals are raised for a profit, that one difference does not mean that my chickens are not being mistreated. I am fit to raise my chickens, they are my pets, my family, my soul. This misconception that chickens only purpose is to lay till they die needs to stop. Most farmers do not care for their chickens wellbeings, rooster are culled on day one of hatching, and hens are debeaked, overcrowed, and die without seeing the sun.

This is what most farm chickens endure.
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What my chickens "endure"
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This post was meant for @Eva2020, not @Scalrett0516.
I was not saying that if they sent their chickens to a farm they will be treated like this-

This was a response to @Eva2020 when they said that chickens are not pets. Please forgive me.
Also, @Eva2020 apologized. So sorry @Eva2020,

 

[black_cat]

Hi, I’ve been reading about how to make a better home for my chicken and ur advice are so valuable!
I’m thinking about the same of letting the chicken have the whole balcony. The door on our balcony is quite sound doable.

If you have the right kind of door to the balcony, you could put in a cat door so and have it held open during the day. You could put an enclosed area for them right next to the balcony. I'd use a puppy playpen, something like this:

With linoleum flooring underneath it and cardboard zip tied to the bottom parts of the panels. That way you can put dirt/pine shavings down for them, and give them full balcony access. If you put bird netting around the balcony so that they can't fly away, they can be on it without supervision.

 

[Scalrett0516]

Op, if you have any pictures of your balcony, that would be helpful.

Hi, here is a picture of our balcony.
One side is floor to ceiling windows and the other side is the door to our living room.