Well They’re No Orpington...

[akostka1988]

Ok I had 2 of each of these kind but the predators this past fall brought my flock from 12 to 6 birds including my favorite girl Kung Fu Chicken one of each of these kind survived the winter (so far it IS New England after all!) so I know the rest of my flock is Orpington and a guinea cockerel but what the heck are these 2?? The black and white one might need updated pics these pics are from the beginning of the winter so let me know if I need to get newer pics!

 

[sourland]

Looks like a white rock and silver laced wyandotte.

 

[akostka1988]

Looks like a white rock and silver laced wyandotte.

You would happen to know if the white one is too skinny would you? She seems to stand out too much and is the butt of everyone’s harassment yesterday it involved 2 bloody incidents! And now I’m wondering if they aren’t letting her eat enough

 

[JustAChickenLoverOverHere]

I agree with sourland. White rock and silver laced wyandotte. (SLW)

 

[Frazzemrat1]

agreed

 

[Weeg]

You would happen to know if the white one is too skinny would you? She seems to stand out too much and is the butt of everyone’s harassment yesterday it involved 2 bloody incidents! And now I’m wondering if they aren’t letting her eat enough

Feel her crop during the day. If it is large and squishy, that is good, that means she has been eating. You can also feel her keel bone-
Google says-
Gently feel through the feathers for this bone. If it is sharp and prominent, if you can pinch it between your fingers without feeling any meat, then your chicken is underweight. On the other hand if you feel cleavage, then your chicken is overweight.

How many feeders do you have out? I would put at least two, so that when the others bully her away from the one feeder, there is still another one she can get to.

 

[Lemon-Drop]

The second one is a silver laced Wyandotte

 

[akostka1988]

Feel her crop during the day. If it is large and squishy, that is good, that means she has been eating. You can also feel her keel bone-
Google says-
Gently feel through the feathers for this bone. If it is sharp and prominent, if you can pinch it between your fingers without feeling any meat, then your chicken is underweight. On the other hand if you feel cleavage, then your chicken is overweight.

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How many feeders do you have out? I would put at least two, so that when the others bully her away from the one feeder, there is still another one she can get to.

I’m not home very much and we switched to a feeder bowl because they were going through their other feeder too quickly and then the other designs I bought were taking up too much space inside the coop I basically use one of those rubber feed buckets (5 gallon) and they get about 1 cup cracked corn, 1 cup black oil sunflower seeds, and 5 cups mixed flock pellets and they go through almost the entire bucket a day unless something is sneaking it without me noticing I do have a couple pain in the ass chipmunks and red squirrels at my house