Recent content by melcaara

My babies are all SO cute

6 weeks! They're all so big and friendly (the cochins are, anyway) definitely 3 pullets and 1 cockerel of the cochins, and 3 of the japanese ones are girls as well. cornish x are out of the picture finally I have seen Betty disciplining the male chicks. It's hilarious, she's so patient about...

I got this super cute photo of Doma and one of the females. 3 weeks!

I am sad about it as well, but luckily the remaining four are exceptionally friendly and it's still looking like 1 cockerel and 3 pullets. I crouch down and they come running to me!

2 Weeks update: Betty and her many babies are doing pretty great! 2 cochins failed to thrive no matter what I did within the first couple of days, and one Japanese bantam had neurological issues so he got put down after a week. So that leaves 15 total, and they're absolutely thriving. I...

I ordered chicks a couple days ago, they arrived a few hours ago. I stuck them all under my Cochin bantam (Betty) who has been sitting for a while and she took them all immediately. Somehow she has fit 18 chicks under her! 6 bantam Cochin, 6 Japanese bantam, and 6 Cornish x. I tend to have luck...

I just had my first order of chicks arrive today, got them from cackle hatchery. All alive and healthy and there's an extra of each breed so I have 18 instead of 15! I ordered them Tuesday, they hatched and shipped Wednesday

This is Teriyaki, my 9 week old copper maran. I'm assuming he's a rooster due to how red his comb is and how more rambunctious he is; but I'd like other opinions on that since the breed has large combs for hens. I don't have any other copper maran for reference; my Orpington hens have massive...

There is a piece of skin that can be put there, it's just unstretched and won't stay in place. I might try to trim them once she wakes up, all the handling probably stressed her

It looks worse rn because I just slathered it in ointment. It was dry originally and I didn't see any damage to the crop at all, I used the wet q tip to pick up the skin and peek just to be sure.

My 3 week old crested legbar chick has a wound on her chest. She's hen raised, I was outside checking on the babies and noticed a tiny speck of blood on my hand and discovered that she skin that covers her crop was torn. She's got a square inch of flesh showing, only damage seems to be to the...

Afaik, Easter egger is the term for a mutt chicken that lays/should lay colored eggs, usually has one of the colored egg laying breeds as a close relative

Thank you! I'll keep that in mind once she starts to grow up. I had literally no clue what she could be xD

No, a local farm supply. They have all kinds of purebreds they order, not someone random selling chicks

I got this week-old chick from an assorted bantam pullet bin. Any clue as to what breed she could be? She's got feathered legs, 4 toes on each foot, and a gold color beak/legs. In the pic with multiple chicks, she's in the middle with a lavender orpington to her right. Not from a TSC or chain...