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Hello everyone, meet Crookie- one of my chocolate Orpington hens. She is nearly a year old now, and last December she began stargazing, walking backwards and separating herself from the flock. So, she moved into the “hospital” in our garage and has been there all winter. Initially she was in...

The jury is out on this one… born around July 1st. Has quite the wattles already. Had it in my arms earlier and hackles are wide and rounded like a pullet. Definitely don’t need another cockerel in the flock. Not sure the breed either if someone wants to take a stab at it.

So, I was gifted a bunch of BCM eggs along with my neighbour. I hatched out four, and she brought down another six to me to keep in my brooder. All of my research says copper on the shoulder by 3 weeks is a cockerel, and those that sprout tail feathers first are likely pullets. These adorable...

I bought five straight run Orpington’s in hopes that I would win the chicken lottery and get all pullets. I have two lavenders and three blacks. The photo isn’t the greatest, but the breeder has marked them P for pullet and C for cockerel. They’re currently 8 weeks old, which I know can be early...

Meet Cletus! I’m hoping you knowledgeable folks might be able to help me figure out what Cletus is. My neighbour hatched this chook and handed it off to me as I had a single hatch in my incubator and it was imprinting on me (see Beatrice, the white roo on the left… we hoped he was a she…) So...

Hello from Newfoundland, everyone! My name is Megan and I am still relatively new to chicken keeping. I started out two years ago with a rhode island red hen and barred rock hen, and lost the rhode island red to a prolapsed vent. I still have the barred rock, and have since grown my flock to...