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I remember my first winter with chickens and the first day that was cold enough that I thought I'd keep the chickens in the coop. I went out to offer warm breakfast and...they met me at the gate to the run. I had forgotten to close the pop door the night before. I thought it was too cold to be...

Saddle feathers are all rounded and conb/wattles are hardly red at all. My bet is for pullet. How old?

Ma'am, what are we doing? She lay like this for several minutes. Apparently it's lay like a weirdo hours

I know, right! I'm happy they are getting along, there are so many stories about odd man out chickens getting bullied in mixed flocks. I was starting to worry a little for Artemis. She wasn't getting picked on or anything, but she also didnt seem to have a buddy.

Artemis seems to have made friends with the wyandotte. This evening when I was playing with the chicks this evening the wyandotte went over to hang out with her. I suspect these two will be at the bottom of the pecking order.

oh dear, looks like we're about to outgrow the brooder. (No worries, we have a chicken wire box over the brooder when we're not playing with the chicks so they won't get far)

Pullet. The lacing is too even to be male. At 13 weeks I would expect silver shoulder patches and pointed saddle feathers to be growing in. Wyandotte tend to pink up early.

We're not allowed roosters! And none of them seem like a Doug anyway

They're a relatively recent hybrid (Meyer released them in 2022 I think). They kinda look like a heavier mottled houdan.(picture from hatchery website)

I don't think that's true barring, probablyjust juvenile feathers. Barring on black chicks is unmistakable because of the headspot(which yours doesn't have). And if she was a barred male you would see at least two rows of barring on those large wing feathers by now

Looks like a speckled Sussex cockerel

Starting a thread for pictures and stories of my own little flock. In December the city was finally convinced to amend the animal ordinance to allow chickens. In January we placed an order with Meyer and began our wait. Our hatch day was April 29, and on May1 we finally got our chicks! After a...

Pullet, probably a legbar based easter egger or olive egger. Possibly a legbar.

I don't see any barring, so no sexlink babies.

It's just a barnyard mix. BUT, if the cuckoo marans (barred) was the mom and the wyandotte was the dad it's a sexlink! No white dot means you have a little pullet, congrats!