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I was surprised to see them crowing this soon. I was fairly sure they were cockerels a couple weeks ago based on comb development. Then about a week ago I noticed the saddles and shoulder patches growing in so I knew the crowing was coming. I just don’t remember my other boys crowing until they...

I just can’t do anything with my hair from all this humidity.

The chicks are starting a band. I saw 3 unnamed cockerels from Gena’s hatch worming up their singing voices this morning. I managed to get one on video. The pullet named chicken and noodles is learning to play the xylophone

I found some time today to get on the river. The fishing was great but the catching was just fair. I cleaned one sturgeon and one silver carp that jumped right in the boat.

That looks like a cockerel. The white feathers on his wings is really common at six weeks old. He should molt out of those white feathers and the grow black ones in their place.

The first round of chicks are now 8 weeks old and the second round chick and his 3 friends I bought are now 4 weeks old. Everybody is doing well. I believe I ended up with 3 pullets and 7 cockerels.

But no matter what, Joannie stays, she's not a cull even if I stop using her to breed. Cull simply means you are not going to use her as a breeder. Moving her to the eating egg flock, keeping her as a pet, or a good reliable broody are all perfectly acceptable ways to cull a bird. It doesn’t...

Are you starting a 3rd clutch of eggs or taking over for one of the broodys?

I have a mixed flock including 15 hens 1 rooster and 13 chicks. They are fed an all flock crumble feed 20% protein. They spend most of their time in an enclosed run but I try to let the out for a few hours at a time on days that I’m home in the evening. Attached are the notes I have for my 2...

Thank you for your reply. His legs are pretty dirty in those pictures. I recently expanded the outside run and I have been waiting for them the eat down most of the grass before adding more wood chips. So when it rains it gets pretty muddy and the chickens love digging up worms when they get the...

Here are some updated pictures of my boy Axl. Hatch date was June 26 2024 so he is just shy of 11 months old. I know that he is nowhere even close to SOP so I’m using him to breed olive Eggers not Marans. I won’t be offended with a low score and believe me you can’t hurt his feelings he thinks...

Just some random rambling updates: My olive Eggers are 6 weeks old yesterday. They were hatched out by Gina my jersey giant. She was a great mother for 4 weeks then returned to the roost bar and left them to fend for themselves. She must have taught them well enough because they all did fine...

Her feet look yellow to me so I would guess barred rock. A Marans would have pink shanks and feet. yellow legs is a fault on Marans

So far my Snow White hasn’t slept in the box yet. She just wants to put up a fight when I collect eggs. Once the eggs are out of sight she finds something else to do.

Keep your voice down with this broody talk. I have a Light Brahma that doesn’t need any encouragement right now. I’ve had to push her out of the box a few times and I’m trying to annoy her enough that she doesn’t commit.

I’m certainly no expert but they look great to me. Bodies look like what I would expect. Leg color looks correct to me. The pictures are a bit fuzzy when I try to zoom in on their eyes but everything I can see looks really nice

One of them was purchased as a cinnamon queen and was chipmunk stripped the day I brought them home. The other 2 were yellow. The one in question was just a little bit darker yellow/brown in color. At the time I didn’t think they were different enough in color that they were different breeds...

All those single combs sure make it easy to tell the boys from the girls. Most of my chicks are olive Eggers with pea combs. About 1/2 also have beard feathers so they don’t grow big wattles either. So I’m still guessing on a few of mine.

I wish I had time but my twins high school graduation is in just a couple weeks. Luckily my wife is handling most of that, but that means I have to pick up some of her normal chores to balance things out and keep her sane. The garden needs lots of attention this time of year. Also the sturgeon...