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The wyandotte's shoulder feathers are coming in and I thought,finally! She's clearly a black laced red! But then again, that seems like an awful lot of grey in the wing feathers. So, maybe? She's a really dark blue after all? Guess we'll wait a little longer and see.

Agreed, what breeds sell well and are in demand is highly variable from one area to another. There's no such thing as a "general list for America" of breeds that sell well. What sells well in one part of a given state may not sell at all in another part of the same state. And sometimes what...

I'm so sorry your family is going through this :hugs 1/2 inch hardware cloth is generally considered the "gold standard"

Apples on the tree will be fine. Any that fall to the ground should be considered contaminated. Depending on what you plan to do with them they may be OK if they are washed, peeled, and cooked first, but to be on the safe side I would just leave ground apples for the chickens.

No, it just means she didn't inherit a blue egg gene.

Exactly!

Agreed, put them back and keep an eye on them. Momma will most likely come back for them. If she doesn't you'll have to either bottle feed them or find a rescue that will take neonates.

If it's stopped bleeding then you don't have to do much. I'd dab it with a damp cottonball to clean it so the other chicks don't pick at it. If broken blood feathers won't stop bleeding then you may have to pull it.

Is it still bleeding?

Splash is the result of a chicken inheriting two blue genes. Since the rooster has no blue genes to pass on all the chicks hatched from this rooster and this hen will get one blue gene from mom and one not-blue gene from dad and will be blue. I would expect this chick to feather in blue with...

Sexlink roosters will have a white spot ( much bigger than those little dots) on the top of the head. Can't miss it, that's definitely 100% not a black sexlink cockerel.

Agree, legbar or legbar mix (they're commonly crossed to other breeds to get easter eggers and olive eggers)

They all have female specific partridge/penciled color patterns, so I'd say you're good

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.