Just had this duckling hatch tonight. Only females we have are 2 Cayuga. The father possibilities are pekin, Cayuga, or khaki campbell BUT the only drake running with the ladies was the pekin. We had separated the drakes because they were overbreeding our girls. Thoughts? The bill and feet are...
And here are the two that are indeed frizzle Cochins. I forgot to add that the 2 new black Cochins were we believe the same age maybe a week younger? but rescued a week later with horrible poopy butt. My days are running together lol.
I was curious if everyone still felt bantam Cochins on these three now that they are 3.5 weeks old. The brown chick seems to look a bit different to me than the 2 black chicks. Thanks.
We use large rubber maid totes when they are tiny. Rather than white or red bulb we use ceramic bulbs or heating pad. We have a 4’ x 5’ wood and wire brooder with wire bottom brooder outside. We have a heat source and hay for bedding. Once no longer using heat and depending on the weather we...
thank you. They are not the best pictures but do the 2 black Cochin look like frizzles? That tan chick is one and the same. Ty. I was very confused with that one. We have 4 3.5 wk white silkies and 2 5 day old silkies. Any guess on the older silkie gender? I’m thinking 2 and 2 🤷🏼♀️
Luckily we don’t live in city limits and Roos are not an issue, unless we get too many of course. For future reference the bantams at TSC (maybe most feed stores?) are usually straight run due to their small size and vent sexing. How old are your silkies now? Ours are young but already so fun...
So we got 2 sets of straight run bantam chicks from TSC, they get their chicks from Hoover Hatchery. The first 4 are 3.5 week silkies, I suspect 2 cockerels and 2 pullets. The ones I think are the “boys” are bigger, stand straighter, bolder, feathering faster (especially legs), and I think...
Thank you. We were actually hoping for a couple cockrels. We paid for pullets at the store but I told them I thought cockerel at days old for 2 of the 3 darks we got that day. They actually said they would give us a discount next time if my suspicions were correct. We mostly have pullets and...
Thoughts on these? 3 together are 5 week 2 day light pullet, 4 week 2 day pullet buff and dark. Single pictures are 4 week 2 day questionable. I’m leaning towards cockerels. They are not developing the same tail feathers and one is so much darker (black?) and the other seems to have a lot of white.
I know they are young but 2 of our dark brahmas feathers seem to be coming in a much different color. We have 2 different ages of Brahma pullets and pullets (although with the mass number the store received I think some are cockerels). The older pullets (dark, light, and buff are 5 weeks 2 days...