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[jockeyeba]

it is kind of hard to tell just by looking at a pic. here are my babies.... hehe.

So cute

 

[jockeyeba]

My radio hen just hatched out 13 chicks yesterday

!!!

 

[chickletteSarge]

What color are the parents, BBred, Duckwing, Brown Red or Wheaten?.  

Cock is golden duckling hen was a wheaten

 

[monita]

I think your hen is a cockerel.


It's a boy!

how can you tell that chick is a boy?????

 

[chickletteSarge]

how can you tell that chick is a boy?????

I have heard that the chicks can be sexed by the eyeliner! I was hoping for a pullet to breed back to the cock but that's good too!
I just hope the color looks the same as the cock! I have some more eggs in the nest from the newly laying pullet! would these be good to use or should I toss them? im also going to see what the colors look like with my red hen that is broody at the moment!

 

[Jake G]

I think it is a rooster to by its color. A hen does not have colors like that.

 

[Jungleexplorer]

We trapped him-he's gone, trap is set for another one. Only had 1 AG hen killed by a hawk that we know of but have seen them trying a few times. Had an owl that was knocking chickens out of the trees in our backyard everynight it seemed like

it but didn't get them. We have lost several that just disappeared so could be either

Nothing but Great Horned owls around here and the larger ones can carry off a full grown rooster. The smaller ones cut the wings off before carrying them off. When it first happened I found 8 sets of pullet wings at the edge of my run, all in the same place. I was like what the heck! I set out some box traps and never caught anything but kept losing pullets and finding wings. I set out 4 game cameras to cover every angle to my coop and caught the owl in the act. It was a little Great Horned. It would land by my coop, walk in and get a pullet and then try to fly off but would run into the run fence, so it would stop there and cut the wings off so it could make it over the fence. Lost about 15 birds to that one owl before I figured out what it was. So I locked all my pullets up in a cage, but still kept losing them. Kept finding them with their head eaten off inside the cage. Up went the cameras and I discovered that it was two owls working as a team. One would make a ruckus on one side of the cage causing the pullets to fly against the other side where the other owl was waiting to catch them. I had to rebuild the rooster in the cage so that the pullets were no where near the edge, but by then I only had a few left. Then the big owls began taking full size birds. One of my rooster disappeared and I found his wings dangling from the top branches of a tall tree. Only one thing could have carried him up there. He was a pretty rooster (below). But what really surprised me was when the little grey falcons started killing full size Games that were free ranging. Once they started in, it was an all out massacre. I had to build emergency pens and lock them all up to save some.

 

[championsumatra]

Quote:
not trying to ruffle your feathers but that is why they invented the chicken house. sometimes chicken houses are not built very good and that is why prdators break in. I can understand why some people don't have them. but it will protect your chickens I have never had a problem with them breaking in my chicken house. (Knock on wood!).

 

[owisanonfarm]

Hi! Just new to the site but have been raising and breeding for a bit, and still learning everyday.. just sharing my young cockerels.
but I cant post the pictures, can anybody teach me how? thanks!

 

[owisanonfarm]

ooppssss... seems that I cant post.. apologies..