Apollo continues to refuse confinement. I had her out for supervised interactions this morning and that went well.
They all dogpiled her when she went over to the corner they were hanging out, but mostly ignored her after that. I put her back in her pen after about an hour or so.
This...
4 weeks is too young to tell for sure. Wyandottes tend to pink up early, and aside from slightly redder combs and wattles I don't see any obvious signs of cockerels.
Single combs are recessive, so they can pass unseen for generations. Between that, and the supposed fertility issues of rose...
Went out to put Apollo in the coop tonight, only to find the run completely empty! "Surely she couldn't have gotten out of the run!" I thought to myself as I start lowkey panicking. I went into the coop to see if maybe one of the kids had put her in the crate. Empty! Looked a little closer, and...
Apollo 😭 I scooped her up from underneath and then we both just kinda looked at each other like "now what?" I realized I couldn't just drop her back over the gate, because dropping 4 feet onto rocks would probably hurt. But I was planning on moving her into a crate in the garage tonight so I...
And the answer is...Rose! We've gotten two eggs out at the farm since we brought Apollo into town. So Rose had to be the one who laid the first egg.
Today's egg (pictured next to one of my RIR eggs) was a large!
Looks like a good setup to me. Generally I try to leave them in the broody buster for 24-48 hours then let them out. If they go back to the nest then back in the buster they go.
Both females. One is bigger than the other because of genetics. If you got them from a hatchery or farm store it's highly likely that they have different parents. Even if they had the exact same parents, not all siblings inherit all the same traits.
At 13 weeks the pointed male specific...
Apollo! That's not your pen! She pushed under the chicken wire this morning. By the time husband found her all the other girls were ignoring her. But he checked the camera and said they all jumped her as soon as she got lose.
Limu was hollering at 530 this morning so I let her out of jail and she went to check out the new girl. Now Apollo is carrying on. My poor neighbors (at least they're still not as loud as the apparently outdoor dogs in the neighborhood)!
No. Mystic marans are a hybrid cross between a marans rooster and a barred rock hen so they won't breed true. It's a sex linked cross resulting in barred male chicks and non-barred females. Males could pass barring on to 50% of their offspring regardless of whether the chicks are male or female...
Disagree, Big Legs looks like a pullet. I don't see any sickle feathers in the tail and the saddle feathers are all broad and round, not skinny and pointy like rooster saddle feathers. The hackle feathers don't look particularly pointy to me either.
I agree, the only one looking male to me is the barred one with the crest. I think the blue one and the black one are probably pullets. The other barred chick I'm not sure on, but nothing screams male to me at this time.