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This was a chick from TSC mixed bantams and I’ve been assuming he’s a golden sebright. But he’s nearly 8 weeks old and I would have expected to see more lacing on his feathers at this point. Is it just because he’s hatchery quality and not show quality? Or does the lacing not develop till later...

I’ve got 4 bantam chicks that are 4 weeks old, 2 golden sebright, 1 OEGB, and 1 Japanese bantam. The Japanese bantam is the only one who never jumps or flies. The other 3 have all been going crazy testing their wings out and they love jumping up to the edge of the brooder box (we cover it when...

I’m 95% sure this is a Japanese bantam. She (straight run, but hoping for a “she” lol) has a single comb, clean legs, and her legs are significantly shorter than the others I got (OEGB and golden sebright). But her feathers are now coming in and I’m curious what color she might end up. Pale...

Got 4 assorted bantam chicks at Tractor Supply, any guesses on breed? No feathered legs. I was kind of assuming they were all Old English Gam bantams but I’m not familiar with the coloring for that breed. I’m guessing 3 and 4 are the same coloring, though one is quite a bit darker than the...

I have a 3.5 year old Ayam Cemani rooster who has slowly been losing bits of his tail feathers. From what I understand of the anatomy of feathers, he’s losing the barbs, but the shaft remains. It doesn’t seem to be a molting issue, because it’s happened slowly over the last few years and the...

One of our girls was attacked by a hawk a week ago. She had a couple wounds that seem to be healing ok, but one is looking pretty gross. It was a little over an inch long when it happened and seemed pretty deep. We used butterfly closures to bring the edges closer together. We’ve been using...

I have a flock of 12 chickens. There are 2 Buff Orpingtons who are the youngest of the flock (about a year old) but don’t generally get bullied. They tend to be the new favorites of our rooster so they had quite a lot of broken wing and back feathers. We put some saddles on them and there was a...

We have a flock with 7 hens and 1 rooster. The hens all get along with the rooster fine except for one named Sally. All the other hens let him mount them. Some of them had some scuffles with him in the past, including our alpha hen, but even she eventually let him do his thing without fighting...

Our broody hen was sitting on her first clutch of eggs and hatched 3 of the 5 eggs over the first 2 days. I checked the other 2 eggs and one was cracked and neither one had any movement or sounds coming from them, but I figured I’d give them another day to try to hatch. Meanwhile, mama hen was...

We have a 7 month old Silkie rooster who, for the most part, gets along with all our 6 hens and pullets. He was raised by us in a coop alongside our main coop and has always had interaction with the older hens, and they were all integrated into one coop a few months ago. A couple weeks ago...

We are located in Mesa, AZ but are willing to meet anywhere in the Phoenix metro area. We have a male and female white silkie pair that we’re selling for $40. We don’t want to split them up, they are a package deal! They are 19 weeks old and are shy but very sweet, they have been picked up and...

We have a flock of 3 adult hens and 4 14-week-old pullets. First the young ones were in a separate coop next to the main coop, with occasional free-ranging in the yard together, and then a couple weeks ago we had them all in their coop/run together during the day, and now they are in the...

My silkies are 14 weeks old. I'm probably 90% certain I know which ones are girls and boys, but I would love a second opinion and feel like you all are so good at this! If I had to guess, I'd say 1 and 3 are cockerels and 2, 4, and 5 are pullets. I lean toward cockerel for 6 but am not totally...

We have 6 13-week old silkies, as well as a flock of other hens. One of the silkies, who I’m pretty sure is a pullet (I believe at least 3 are roosters) is, for lack of a better word, derpy. She is always last to come out of the coop, and when she does she tends to stand away from the other...

Bought from Tractor Supply, she (or he?) is about 6 weeks old. The last pic is when it was a couple days old. I originally guessed Australorp because I know TSC sells those, but it seems too light to be a black Australorp and too dark to be a blue Australorp. I’ve also looked into the...

It’s about 6 weeks old, bought from Tractor Supply. Also have another of the same breed but with fewer black spots. Maybe Austra White but possibly could be a Delaware?

We bought these chicks from Tractor Supply yesterday (only a few days old, I’m guessing), they said the 3 yellow ones were all buff orpingtons, but they look very different from one another so we’re skeptical. One of them is more of a golden buff color, and the other 2 are brighter yellow and...

We have several citrus trees in pots in our yard, as well as several other potted plants. Our ~8 week old chicken loves hopping up on the pots and going from pot to pot. Lately she has started pecking at the young tree leaves. At first I thought she just liked to peck at them, but I noticed...

A couple weeks ago, my stepson caught a chicken at a local fair (where they release a bunch of chickens and have kids try to catch them) and begged to take it home. We have always wanted to have a few chickens, but weren't really planning to get any until we moved to a bigger lot. Well, I guess...