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I actually agree with the Welsummer comment for the one I said was a Wyandotte, I was mixing up my 2 breeds. the Wyandotte have a flat rose comb and as chicks they have speckling around the head and this one has a single comb as a chick and a slight line on top of the head.

img 5392 looks like my black australorps did at that age and the 5399 one is a white leghorn. 5409 might be the wyandotte. ETA- I don't think they will be able to fit in that container much longer. They already look super cramped in there.

3 WEEK OLD UPDATE Today I went outside to feed the hens and baby chicks and noticed that Billy, the baby chick with the orange head and slow feather growth in img_1322, has a single comb that is turning pink and has more noticeable growth than the other fast feather growth baby chicks' combs...

They would eat a few grains and leave the pellets because they are too hard and that's the part that has all the nutritional benefits, SMH. I am just glad they ate it wet. They started to lay less eggs, in the last 7 days, they went from 4, 4, 5, 5, 4, 3, and 3 today. Hopefully now that they...

I have not fed them any grubs today, only the feed mixed with water. They seem to have eaten half of it already, hopefully they continue to do that.

I added water to their pellet and Henhouse Reserve feed mix, the pellets became mash and they actually ate most of it, so I just wish I had done that before ordering different brands of crumble feed to try out. If anything, I will mix the Henhouse feed with their crumble feed and give it to them...

Thank you, I was not sure if there was anything wrong with them eating the starter crumble, but they are eating oyster shells. They do forage, but with the recent excess availability of fruit, they became super picky and only seemed to want fruit and grubs. They eat veggies now, but still wont...

My hens will not eat their food. We have tried pellets, scratch and now Henhouse Reserve. They only want greens, fruits and grubs. I have noticed that they will eat the crumble feed for the baby chicks. What can I do to make them eat their food? I do not want them going hungry or becoming...

I honestly don't recall which grew feathers faster, am thinking the hens did, but as it is, it could have been the roosters. it was 7 roosters and 3 hens. This time around it might be the same again it seems. They did start crowing around 5 weeks old, so have 3 more weeks to wait.

Here is a recent pic of 2 of the chicks I think might be males due to slow feather growth and a possible Black Australorp mix pullet.

I originally was going off a theory that the baby chicks I hatched in the incubator were male or female based on the feather growth patterns. 3 have super slow feather growth compared to the rest. My chickens are White Orpington, Black Australorp, RIR/wyandotte mix and RIR/welsummer mix and the...

It seems that there are 3 baby chicks, 2 red and 1 black, with slow feather growth. The other 4, 2 of each, seem to have a lot of feather growth in their wings and tails. Will continue to post updates as they develop.

These are the red parents at that same age.

Thank you for your reply. I think that at first they were sex linked because when I was given the eggs for my red chickens, the females were all black with golden white bottoms and the males had chipmunk coloring in varying degrees or golden yellow with a big black dot on top of the head and...

One of the baby chicks has a bigger head than the rest, my dad saw it and said it's a cockerel.

what about a big head?

They are red. I tried doing the feather sexing and based on that, it seems that I might have 4 pullets and 3 cockerels. Will update the post once it's definitive what they are.

I hatched them in an incubator from my hens eggs. I have 4 black Australorps, 1 white orpington and 3 buff orpington/wyandotte mix, the roo is a buff orpington/wyandotte mix as well.

I am looking at these and can't help think they are males. The coloring is lighter.

Thank you all, we decided to use a brooder instead since the hen seems to have rejected 4 and killed one earlier today. The broody hen has now gone back to being her usual self and is ignoring the chicks.