These little chickadoos are 9wks old. They were sold as pullets. I know they can be a little harder to gender than other “breeds “ mutts😂 but what are y’all’s guesses?
I’m more curious about pink and green. But there’s four of them. Pink, Green, Purple, Yellow!
There’s a lot of pictures...
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I have a Sapphire Gem pullet being an odd ball. She’s always been a tad independent, but since free ranging them while I’m home I have noticed that this pullet is Mrs. Independent.
She goes on her own little missions away from the crew. She kind of looks...
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We have a 9wk old Easter Egger pullet who has crooked toes/ stands funny. She has always had a slight twist in her feet, but for the past couple weeks it has been bothering her more.
I thought she was just a little special, and that she was a little deformed, but could it be...
One of my Buff Orphington pullets has a really red face. Could there be something medically wrong with her? I’ll post her first and then my other Buff Orphingtons for comparison.
Hello all! I wanted to show everyone my flock for the 2024 spring ☀️
Here’s what we have:
3 sapphire gem pullets (1:7wk 2:8wk)
1 Partridge Plymouth Rock pullet (7wk)
1 Golden Laced Wyandotte pullet (8)
1 Silver Laced Wyandotte pullet (8)
1 Black Maran cockerel (8)
1 Buff Brahma pullet (7)...
I have posted about this little dude before, but now at 7 weeks I’m still at a loss. What in the world is he?
I’m determined to figure it out once and for all!
History: purchased from Rural King (Hoovers hatchery ) from an “assorted marans “ bin.
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I was wondering how many chickens I should cap out on?
My coup/ box is 5*5 with two roosting bars that extend all the way across. It’s going to have internal nesting boxes that will slide out.
My run is 14*5 (it includes the space under the coup)
That would make the coup 25 square...
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Tomorrow my older chickens turn 7 weeks old and they are fully feathered! My younger chicks turn 6 weeks old and are just about feathered in with the exception of my runt( but is quickly catching up with one little gap in feathers )
They have been spending all day that I’m...
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I wanted to share some pics of two of the three sapphire gems I have. The two I’m going to show are 3 weeks old on 2/22/2024. The size difference between these two is surprising. My almost 4-week-old sapphire gem is the same size as
my bigger almost 3-week-old.
I’m not sure if it’s a...
Posting with curiosity. What was the youngest you could tell if your chicks were pullets or roos?
Even though my older chicks are too young for me to give guesses on.. (3 weeks) I'm seeing a difference in two of my chicks already. Crossing my fingers for two pullets.
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I’m starting a new thread because I’m genuinely curious how chick poop can indicate health.
Some of yall know that I had something mysterious wipe out 12 of my chicks, but have not had a death in maybe 5 days related to that mysterious thing. (I did have a death a few...
I’m losing chicks left and right. They are one week old. I started with 20 on Saturday. 1 died on Monday night from pasty butt complications .Ive been dealing with pasty butt issues non-stop and NO the brooder is not too hot. It’s 83-84 in hottest spot and and 60 in back corner. My house is 66...
I have lost 2 chicks out of 26 in the past week. The first chick passed from pasty butt. The second I do not know what ! She died this morning after acting lethargic and week the past couple of days. She had runny poop… tried everything to save her but she didn’t pull through. I still have a...
For those of you who know, I've been struggling with brooder temps and pasty-butt. Someone suggested that I put my sicklier chicks in a separate brooder. Well, I needed a new bulb for my heater lamp (Other brooder has hot-plate) This way I wouldn't have to lift the plate every time I had to...
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I'm still struggling with pasty butt in my chicks! I backed off brooder temp (it's roughly 85 now/ also kind of scared they are too cold because of dog piles). and am making sure my chicks vents stay CLEAN. I lost a chick to this a couple days ago. They are 6 days old now. One is...
sadly one of our Maran chicks passed away tonight :( We checked on them tonight after a day of being out and saw that one was acting emaciated. We gave her some sugar water and got her warm. Checked her bum and realized that she had pasty butt! (We had previously checked all of them ) We gently...