I thought Raine here was a cockerel but now I’m second guessing myself. He’s about 15 weeks old, a Serama mix (not sure with what). I’m questioning because his comb isn’t reddening up yet, though I know it can sometimes take longer.
What's the earliest you've heard one of your little cockerels crow? I have a little Serama boy, Sam, who started at two weeks! He'd do the little gearing up to crow, then peep in a crowing cadence, like peep-peep-peep-pee-peeeee! Here is a video of him doing a baby crow when he was about 4...
This spring I got a straight run of Silkies, Seramas, and a couple of Bantam Wyandottes. We have 12, 7 girls and 5 boys. We are in the process of building a bachelor pad for the boys, because they are so great I need to keep them. They're so sweet, very different from other roos we've had in...
I got a batch of silkies and seramas from a breeder, and she gave me these two as freebies. She's working on some bantam Wyandotte lines, but not selling them yet. I THINK Hunter (roo) is a Blue-laced Red and Luz (hen) is might be a buff but I'm less sure about her. Here are my pretty babies...
This is Karen! She's a silkie naked neck, about 14 weeks old. I've been pretty sure she was a hen, but she likes to hang out with the roos a lot, and I want to be sure, since I have NO idea what a roo of this breed would look like. Either way, "she" is fabulous and I'm keeping her, I already...
Hello everyone! As many here, I'm becoming a new chicken parent. Depending on when they arrive at the store, I'm picking up my new babies either tomorrow or Friday. I'm getting two Araucanas, two Rhode Island Reds, and two Buff Orpingtons. I've had many types of pets over the years, but this...