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A month ago and yesterday.

She's been drenched twice in the last 12 weeks, both times a two day treatment. Corid in the water for the whole flock the first time, the second time I just treated her inside and did not treat the rest of the flock. Nothing else in the water. Her sister got the same treatment with the same...

I don't know. I've never had a cockerel interested in the young pullets before. They pretty much ignore them until they're laying age. If he's a year old he's fully mature, but I don't know why the behavior started. In my cockerel's case he had full access to the hens (my rooster is a wimp)...

What is the difference between lacing and barring? I thought lacing was only the tips of the feathers and barring was striped feathers.

I have a young cockerel that is doing something similar. The pullets are 13 weeks old. He tried to mate the smallest, she got scalped and I think was crushed. This started only after the adult hens had rejected him and the adult roo started running him off. I am hoping also that it's just a...

Is this lacing? Her father is barred, the barring coming from her Bielefelder grandfather. Her mother is a Jersey Giant, her father Bielefelder x JG

No idea. Once they're laying in the box, put it just outside and block off "their" corner. They should default to the familiar. Or they may decide to nest elsewhere. There's a reason they chose that corner, after all.

Still say pullet. Sometimes the boys will have a white "cap" at the top of the wing. Not always, but I've never seen a chick with that white cap that turned out to be a pullet.

Try putting your new nesting box where they're used to laying for a while, then move it?

Do you have a picture of the RIR as a chick? I still think pullet, but could be a late developing cockerel.

I don’t know because I have never raised geese, but from the pictures I find online it appears so.

The Barnevelder's comb is already turning red at 10 weeks. The RIR could be a cockerel but it's unlikely at this point. While not definitive, all my boys jave started showing comb color by three weeks. Also, look at the way they stand. The Barnevelder is always upright, alert, while the others...

Agreed

It means how the animal carries itself. Hens, for example, have a horizontal carriage, while roosters are more upright. Chinese geese apparently carry themselves more vertical, so their heads would be up rather than looking at the ground. They stand tall.

I am at a loss. This is the second Speckled Sussex chick (13 weeks) that is showing the same symptoms. Lethargic, not eating (at least when I can see). She eats and drinks fine when I get her inside, then a day or two after I put her back outside she's right back to the same behavior. There...

Won't be too much longer before they start requiring 24/7 internet access for cloud storage and have only enough hard storage to run the phone.

I would guess pullet, but it would only be a guess. The comb size at that age is basically meaningless. I am looking at the horizontal carriage and the lack of a pale wing "cap" for my guess. When the comb starts to color in that's when you can start to worry, usually around 4 weeks in my...

I think Cookie is a cockerel and the other two are pullets.

So all three boys are in the bachelor pad for at least the next month. Somebody killed one of the 12 week chicks, I think trying to mate her, but she was the smallest... The girls are going in the coop at night without me having to carry them in and there's a lot less stress. At the other end...

Basically, the genes are a card catalog to a microfiche library the size of Texas. (Old fashioned analogy, I know, but I don’t think there's a computer corollary that fits)