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What do you think about Lavender? S(he) is a wyandotte, 5 or 6 weeks old. Bought as a sexed pullet. So far overall she looks like a pullet to me, but the comb looks very wide and puffy, and I'm not sure about this comb type. I'd love to see your comparison pictures.

I bought this chick labeled as an "Onyx Olive Egger" from a farm store in Colorado. She has white black washed legs with two or three feathers on a couple of her toes. Single comb that is black in color so far. Plumage is coming in mostly black with faint flecks of copper brown here and there...

My chicken math: Decided on 4 chicks this year, but my daughter wanted a leghorn, so we came home with 5. Six weeks later, Broody hen insisted she needed eggs so I gave her some from a friend who has a nice rooster. Only one was viable, and it ended up quitting too. But I'm a softie, so Broody...

Weeks ago I mentioned that our feed store was getting chicks in on Valentine's Day. On the morning of the 14th when I said happy Valentine's Day to my 3-year old, she rubbed her eyes and replied, "where's our chicks?"🤣 That's my girl. So I picked her up early from preschool on Friday and we...

We did a mix of silk dyed eggs and regular food coloring this year. Somehow the two year old didn't spill any dye and only smashed two eggs!

Got this one at a farm store. She was in a bin marked barnelveders and cochins, but is clearly neither of those. I got her anyway because she's cute and I like a mystery. No apparent comb yet, so probably not single comb. Clean white/pink legs. I have two guesses, but what are yours?

Show me your Christmas projects! What are you making? Last year for my daughter's first Christmas, we hung up actual socks. This year I decided to make matching stockings, and I love how they turned out. I cut the pieces from a sweater dress from Goodwill, sewed with embroidery thread, and made...

I have three Black Copper Marans hens who lay nice dark eggs. I can usually tell whose is whose. (Minnie's is larger and redder, Posie's is lighter and oranger, and Pansy's is darker with speckles.) However, today I got one egg from each of them, and this little bitty pullet egg too. (Smallest...

I knew Posie was flying over the fence, but I wouldn't have found this if I hadn't been out digging potatoes yesterday. Now it's the joy of my afternoon to climb up and gather one egg from the flower bed over the potato patch.

I have never had a broody hen before in 10 years of chicken keeping.... And now that my coop is already 4 birds over capacity, I have not one, but TWO. Lol. C'est la vie. Letting them have a total of 5 eggs, 2 and 3 each, and hoping they each hatch one.

Georgie Porgie Puddin Pie. My new farm hand. The chickens act like they know he's supposed to be a predator, but can't figure out why he's so small.

I'm aware it's too early to determine sex, but I wondered if anyone wants to guess. This chick is 3 weeks old, and it's half Bielefelder (dad) and I believe half whiting true green (bio mom). I'm assuming it's a boy, because that's what I do with straight run chicks, but the salmon orange...

This broody has been working so hard. Her original clutch of eggs failed, and this chick is from an egg my husband forgot to collect while I was out of town. She was on her nest for almost 40 days. Today she took Junior outside for the first time.

I have a duplicate thread going, so sorry if you're seeing this twice. I have a first time broody hatching a chick that pipped normally, but is not zipping normally and is missing a lot of shell. The egg may or may not have been stepped on by a hen. It's cracked all around and missing maybe...

So I let my broody have some eggs, and left my husband in charge while I traveled out of town.(eye roll) He did a terrible job at taking fresh eggs out from under her, so I ended up with eggs at all stages of development. I only saw movement in one of the original eggs, so I marked three of them...

Hi, So, I decided to let my broody marans hen, Minnie Mae, have 6 eggs yesterday. She has two of her own, two from my Whiting True Green (a red colored single combed olive egger) and two from my sicilian buttercup. Dad is a handsome bielefelder. I know I'm counting my chickens here, (Not...

My babies got big. :) Last year:. This year:

Hi all, meet my lavender ameraucana. Her name was supposed to be Lavender, but now I call her Tiny, because she just... doesn't seem to grow. I got her as a day old chick. She was always a little smaller and seemed weaker than the others. She sleeps a lot and seems unsteady on her feet when...

My whiting true green just did a really nice job today. She usually lays a light olive egg, but today I got avocado green with speckles. :) Other eggs for color contrast are whiting true blue and black copper marans.

So, I don't usually put a cover on my chick brooder until they're 3 weeks, but I might need to go get it to protect them from my daughter helping. She knows how to give her big chickens food by throwing it at them. So far she has 'given' the 3 day old chicks: a pair of scissors, a paper towel...