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  1. andreamunroe

    Angry chicken contest

    Rosie Teenager “Don’t even look at me! Bad hair day, ok?!”
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    16week golden laced Wyandotte confusion

    I have 2 golden laced Wyandottes hatched just 2 days apart but they look so different. One is definitely a cockerel, the darker one. The lighter one, (who I really want to be a pullet, I nursed her back from the brink of death at 2 days old after a broody attacked her, which is why she has that...
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    Beautiful barnevelder-leghorn mix 12 weeks

    I’ll call her a barnevelder-polish mailman. 😂
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    Beautiful barnevelder-leghorn mix 12 weeks

    Aren’t silkie eggs smaller? The 2 small eggs we got from my friend (which she said were the silkie eggs) were a white/cream colour and quite small- neither of them hatched. The other 5 eggs were really large and brown (bigger than the eggs we get from my 1 year old RIRs and australorps, and...
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    Beautiful barnevelder-leghorn mix 12 weeks

    Here are the 2 silkies, no idea about toes or if they were mixed or what. She did say there was something special about the black on because the feathers were actually white, and just black at the tips or something. I have no idea about silkies at all (or chicken genetics in general haha- but...
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    Beautiful barnevelder-leghorn mix 12 weeks

    I heard back from my friend. She got the rooster as an egg from the local agricultural college, who have leghorns but also other breeds too, so no idea. He was a really small rooster. She said none of her neighbours on her road have chickens, she lives on a side road off a rural highway, so that...
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    Beautiful barnevelder-leghorn mix 12 weeks

    No egg pics. Here is what she looked like as a younger chick, in case that helps.
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    Beautiful barnevelder-leghorn mix 12 weeks

    My friend did have silkie hens in her flock- she had 2 silkies, 2 barnevelders, and the white rooster. We got 7 eggs from her to put under my broody hen- 2 small whitish silkie eggs and 5 large brown eggs (darker brown than the eggs we get from our Rhode Island reds and blue australorps, and...
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    Beautiful barnevelder-leghorn mix 12 weeks

    Not that I know of, but I’m not sure. I’m going to ask my friend if she has neighbors with chickens
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    Beautiful barnevelder-leghorn mix 12 weeks

    Hahahaha maybe that’s it! They did free range but Dave was their only Roo, I’ll have to ask if she knows of other nearby roosters. The only other birds she had at that time were a couple of Silkie hens.
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    Beautiful barnevelder-leghorn mix 12 weeks

    Here are the only pics I could find, sorry for poor quality. The breeds I was told could be wrong. Last pic (orange cockerel) is her brother from the same parents if that is helpful. The friend who gave me the eggs had the 2 barnevelder hens pictured (she said one was double laced and one was...
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    Beautiful barnevelder-leghorn mix 12 weeks

    I’ll see if I can find more pics. I got fertile eggs from a friend and she doesn’t have those birds anymore.
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    Beautiful barnevelder-leghorn mix 12 weeks

    Her mom was a barnevelder for sure, and here’s her dad, the only rooster in the flock- they thought he was a leghorn but they weren’t sure. Is it possible there was some polish in him? That puffy head is so strange.
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    Beautiful barnevelder-leghorn mix 12 weeks

    I’ve been told she’s a pullet, but the tail feathers are getting long and cascading a bit (the other day she had more of those though- she’s lost quite a few of what looked more like sickles). No comb or wattles to speak of (or actually, I don’t know maybe there’s a comb in that puffball of a...
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    Sex of this 12 week old golden laced Wyandotte?

    Oh noooooo! 😭 She (he) is a favourite- jumps onto my shoulder when I call her. Bylaws prevent us from keeping roosters, we’ve been looking for a place just outside of town but our move likely won’t happen before this one starts crowing ☹️ This is our other GLW, she was attacked by a broody as a...
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    Sex of this 12 week old golden laced Wyandotte?

    Thanks for your insight! I’m still learning.
  17. andreamunroe

    Broody hen hatched 2 chicks, I added 2 more and she's attacking

    Thanks! I thought we'd be OK since they're only 2-3 days apart but I suppose even 2 days is actually a lot in terms of imprinting and development. Good to know for future! In terms of integration, do you think these 2 new chicks will be picked on MORE by this mother hen than by the other hens...
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    Broody hen hatched 2 chicks, I added 2 more and she's attacking

    Because of the difference in colour? Or because her own chicks were 2 days old already?
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    Broody hen hatched 2 chicks, I added 2 more and she's attacking

    My broody hen hatched out 2 chicks (out of 7 eggs) on Monday/Tuesday. I bought 2 new day-old chicks yesterday, and slipped them under her after dark last night in hopes that she would accept them, they're only a day younger than her own chicks. I went out this morning and the 2 new chicks were...
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    Broody in mid-hatch: allow other hens back into coop tonight?

    No rooster (we live in town and aren’t allowed them), we got fertilized eggs from a friend. I ended up blocking off the 4 x 8 foot space under the coop for Harriet and the chicks. I used the panels from a wire dog crate so the other hens can see and hear the chicks, everything is great so far...
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