2 today, from Juin and Août.
Juillet tried to lay her egg late in the day, but I guess it just wasn’t time. I’m expecting another two-toned egg in the morning from her, but we’ll see.
2 today, from Juillet and Juin.
The girls had a bit of a free for all right before bed. Août found a skink in their run and fly tackled it, and then the other two quickly joined the fray. Poor thing was quite tossed about, lost its tail and a back leg, but I managed to get Juin to drop it in...
Oh no! I hope her chick gets better soon!
I don’t know if there’s any science to back this, but I used the slurry in the video below on my day old chicks last year when they arrived and looked like they needed some extra nutrition. It didn’t do them any harm at least, and they all perked up...
1 today, from sweet, dependable Juin. Her 45th in a row!
She laid this one much later in the day than her normal time (11am), so maybe tomorrow she’ll put it off until the following morning. I’d be so happy if she got to take even just one day off.
I agree with @fluffycrow, except I’m uncertain about breed on #4. It looks like it has some copper showing on its chest, and yellow legs rather than the pink legs of an Australorp. I’m wondering if maybe it’s a black sexlink pullet? If I’m imagining the copper it may be a Jersey Giant.
I’d say cockerel. That looks like double barring to me, which comes from males having two barring genes. Females only have one of these genes and are therefore much darker than males.
Here is a picture of my Cuckoo Marans pullet at 11 weeks for comparison:
Edit: Wanted to say that male...