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My parents are integrating 8-week old guineas and chickens into an existing flock (ignore the hen in the back with the chicks). They were supposed to be sexed pullets (edit: other than 1 GLW cockerel, who was ordered). You expect some mis-sexing, but I'm seeing an awful lot of potential roos...

My parents had a broody hen who hatched 6 chicks. They have black sexlinks/stars (RIR x Barred Rock crosses), black-laced gold wyandottes, and a single easter egger (a blue ameraucana x black laced silver wyandotte cross pictured below) Only rooster is a splash laced red wyandotte. They know...

My parents got some eggs for a broody hen from neighbors, and we're curious about this guy/gal. That comb looks mighty roo-ish to me (he's 12.5 weeks old). Parentage uncertain, but the neighbors say they have leghorns and black stars/sexlinks. Mostly black with some red/white leakage around...

I've been having fun getting to know my parents' new chickens. A while back their neighbors got some sexed, day old chicks from the mixed bin at a feed store. This one was always bigger than the others and developed a red comb ~8 weeks, so they thought it might be a cockerel, and gave it to my...

My parents (who don't have a rooster) are relatively new to chickens, had a broody hen they couldn't break, and decided to let her hatch some fertilized eggs given by a friend. The eggs were from Silver Laced Wyandottes, rooster is an Araucana. Of the three that hatched, two had a run in with a...