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Lavender Orpington hatched 4/20 - 24 weeks old.. slowest of all my birds to mature so far. Australorp hatched May 23 - 19 weeks matured quickly like my RIRs Found this tiny brown egg, on the darker side.. next to an egg from on of my RIRs. Both pullets started squatting this week, both have...

Hi all, I am not planning on hatching out babies from these two, but I was curious what their babies would potentially look like.. but how do I enter my cockerel into the chicken calculator? I haven’t quite mastered how to use it :oops:. Cockerel is Ameraucana based EE and pullet is a MF...

Hi all, I’ve been pretty sure this chick was a pullet, but it gets singled out by its hatch mate that I suspect is a cockerel, and in the last week has gotten color to it’s pretty small comb. Pea combs have me confused :bow. Any thoughts on if this is a pullet or cockerel? Personality wise, this...

I know the standard answer is around 12 weeks, but I have an EE chick, Kronk, that’s been confusing me. It has color in the almost non-existent comb but it hasn’t deepened in color.. but this chick is only 6 weeks old (hatched 5/23) and I can’t tell if I’m seeing male specific saddle feathers or...

Hi All, I know 8 weeks is very young for a silkie but I thought I would ask for opinions. To add difficulty my silkie has been an extreme runt “her” whole life, it was a bit touch and to at the beginning but now we have a very healthy vibrant, tiny chick. I have assumed pullet until proven...

We have 2 17 week old barred rocks and 3 Rhode Island reds all the same age. This morning when I went to clean the coop we found two eggs! I wasn’t expecting them quite yet, but it was awesome being my sons second bday. My kids were screaming with excitement. I am almost positive I know which...

My dad ordered 28 Ameraucanas from Dunlap Hatchery and allowed me to cherry pic 3 that I wanted for my much smaller flock .. but when I got home and looked into Dunlap (cause I had my suspicions) and read their description for Ameraucana, they refer to them as EEs. So is this chick exhibiting...

Hi all, I’ve learned so much from everyone and become enthralled by chicken genetics. My dad has had chickens longer than I’ve been alive but since getting into chicken keeping myself, my curiosity has grown about the chickens at my parents farm. They gather eggs daily and don’t usually let hens...

Hi All, our little blue silkie chick was hatched 4/20 and is 4 weeks old, purchased at a feed store. She is clearly a runt and growing and feathering at an extremely slow pace, in the beginning I had to keep her warmer and feed her extra on the side. But my question is on her feathers, do I need...

This is John and Yolko. I learned of naked necks and had to have some, so my own sweet partner made a three hour round trip drive to surprise me with these two from a local breeder. We bought them straight run, but John showed himself early. They were hatched march 10 so they are only 8 weeks...

Hi all, I’ve learned a lot about sexing, but since each breed has its nuances I was wondering if my little D’uccle is looking good for a pullet to you all. I saw a thread where someone mentioned their Mille fleur looked to be a cockerel based on pattern and mine looked almost identical, but the...

Hi all, I have a blue Orpington, Indie, that was purchased from a feed store on 4/21 as a day old blue orpington pullet. From the first day I’ve noticed her wings seem a bit odd, now as they are getting feathers, they naturally tuck under and seem disheveled. Is she actually lavender and this is...

Hi all some details about my chick “Charzard”: Absolutely tiny blue silkie from IFA feed store, the store said Hoovers but I didn’t see blue silkies listed through them. I got her on Friday 4/21, so probably just under or just about a week since “she” hatched. She does eat and drink but not...

I have two 3+ week old chicks together, a buff silke and D’uccle. Today I picked up a blue Orpington and blue silkie, the Orpington still has her egg tooth, so they are very new babies but very lively. When I brought the two blues home today I let the four socialize and the two bigger babies...

Hey everyone, just thought it might be fun to start a thread to show off our chicks. No real point other than I can’t get enough of these adorable little dinosaurs! Right now I have three groups: The “big girls” almost 9 weeks old, three RIRs and two barred rocks. All pullets most likely...

Hi everyone, I’ve never had a silkie before we got one about a week ago, but it looked a little bigger when we got it so it might be closer to 2-3 weeks old and it was from a feed store that said the chicks were from Hoovers. When I got home I realized this chick has some odd features, while...

I think we’ve got a Belgian bearded D’uccle and a buff silkie? If so, is the black dot on the head significant in any way for the silkie in terms of gender (similar to barred rocks head spot).

Hi All, when my spouse and I bought our house, someone had converted a portion of the big shed/workshop into a dog house for their Great Dane. We just finished building it out for our chickens using what we had on hand cause we didn’t want to spend any extra money .. with the exception of the...

Hi @TudyBOT, if I have 84 sq ft of indoor coop space and 120 sq ft of run space, what is the maximum number of chickens I can keep, happily?

3 weeks old today, I got this chick locally with another yellow but now white chick, I asked if they were crossed with anything and the breeder said “no they are 100% Transylvania turkens”… but my little black chick has ended up barred and he also had 50 barred rocks for sale so I’m thinking mom...