Recent content by MixedFlock23

Hello all! It’s been a year since I last commented/posted! I just randomly logged on today to see if I had any messages and I did! Thanks, Nifty! It’s been quite the year! We got a puppy and worked with a trainer in May (even brought in a few chickens!) to help her learn chickens aren’t for...

332 days after the attack— Silver has resumed laying!! She laid her first egg in almost a year last night! 💕 🥚 Our only green layer is back in business—though we love her the same even if she never laid again. (She’s the only standard sized hen in the bantam pullet coop. She walks with limp...

I love number 1 best, but maybe that’s more red than golden? If so, number 4 is my pick. (But I know nothing really about colors or SOP!) They are all handsome!

Hopefully my comment will bump your thread up & you’ll get more knowledgeable replies! I’ve not had any of those breeds, but the youngest I’ve had a pullet get red wattles was 5 weeks (a bantam Cochin)… thought for sure she was a he, but nope! I’ve have cockerels with red wattles at 3 weeks...

Do you only have one pullet? If so, do you have any white egg layers? If no other pullets, but white egg layer hens, I’d guess it is a fairy egg from her rather than from your blue egg pullet. It takes my blue & green layers much longer than a week to fade their shell colors and they don’t fade...

Thank you! Beautiful girls!! Yes, they are harder for sure!

You were correct!! I’m so glad you commented as I was ready to rehome her as a cockerel. Thank you!

Forgot to update this! Cutie is a laying pullet! She started squatting when I walked by her around 6.5 months old and began laying soon after that. She’s been laying consistently through winter along with her showgirl pals. She’s even briefly gone broody like a good Silkie. 😆 She’s now almost...

I’ve had pullets with pink combs/red wattles very early on—at 5 or 6 weeks, and thought for sure they were boys, so it’s a wait & see, especially with hatchery/feed store chicks. I once picked 6 boys out of 7 straight runs… but two years later I picked out 5 girls of 5 straight runs, so maybe...

Yes, ours were pullets! I hope yours is too. It doesn’t look like either gender yet to me! 😆 (The other little one in pic 2 looks like a cockerel though, but I’m sure you see that too.)

I talk about moving to Texas all the time. ha ha! I'd love for my banana trees to get to stay up all year!! I was born in the Midwest, but I don't think I'm meant to stay here! I count the months/days until spring before winter official even begins each year! (My banana trees are cut down to 6"...

Genius idea!! One of my daughter's Polish pullets had a few icicle feathers! Everyone is fine, but this would have kept her head feathers dry/not heavy and frozen!

No monthly fee. Just paid the $15 sale price (now $30) and bought a device to save videos on it. Without the extra module, I can still view the "live videos" any time I want to, which is all I really need. Both mini blink cameras are for indoor use, they say, but are doing fine inside our coops...

@CoopBoots , I’m cracking up that you marked my “box thingy” comment as informative. 😂 Here’s actual information on that item: I've tried three times making a link to it, but it won't open. Aghh. I'll try a screenshot...

It is an indoor blink mini. Hubby paid $18 Black Friday 2020 and it’s been inside the main coop wrapped in plastic food wrap to keep dust off and working great all this time. A coop isn’t indoor, but apparently negative temps and 90 degree temps don’t bother it. We haven’t had the subscription...