Still trying to figure out if my 11 week old barnyard mix babies are hens or roos. Can anyone tell by looking at their feathers? I know the white one has the comb of a roo but no sign of a wattle. At 11 weeks can you tell by hackle and saddle feathers?
I have two chicks. They will be 6 weeks on Thursday. I've been letting them outside for the past few days but today it is only 60 degrees. Is that too cold? It is supposed to rain tonight and the rest of the week so I wanted to give them some outside time today.
Hi Everyone.
I accidentally fell into raising backyard chickens when I agreed to continue incubating unhatched eggs after the mama abandoned them. This resulted in two of the cutest babies I’ve ever seen. So now I’m all in for being a Chick Mama. But where we live, we are only allowed to have...