Recent content by sherrydeanne

As long as the oldies and newbies stick with each other, they'll be fine. I would only worry if one of the newbies integrates and the other doesn't (within a day or two). The funky egg thing is to be expected, don't worry. I wouldn't give them separate roosting/drinking/eating spaces...

If it helps, those WL's with the huge combs are definately boys. My two girls at 16 weeks don't have even 1/3 that much comb/wattle. What are you going to do with the extra boys? What time do the bigger ones go out to freerange? If they range in the evening and pretty much come home and...

Ethel is iffy to me. Comb is fine but her tail worries me a bit. She's probably a pullet but you may want to keep an eye on her for 2 more weeks or so.

Sexlink roo.

My white leghorns actually feathered in some reddish feathers very early on. They were surprise pullets so I thought they might be very light sexlinks but by 6 weeks they were solid white again.

Yep, looks like a leghorn to me as well.

She's definately a pullet. Stop worrying My br pullet is just 8.5 weeks and her comb is red as well.

For most breeds, yes.

I have about 6-8 each of Spec. sussex, barred rock, golden sexlink and then about 6 who may be welsummers or brown leghorns (I think it's a mix). All hatchery stock, pullets, hatched 6/1. I'm in Fitchburg if anyone's interested

Hi all, I have about 6-8 each of Speckled Sussex, Barred Rocks, Golden sexlinks and either Welsummer or brown Leghorn (probably a mix of both??) -- all hatchery stock, all sexed as pullets. Shoot me a message if you're interested Pick up only please.

You have two of each. The RIR and one black in the first pic are pullets; others roos. I'm not sure what your black chicks are though, that's a lot of white even for a hatchery australorp at that age (in my experience) and too much black on the legs, but perhaps someone else will know for sure.

Are they from a hatchery? They look like mixes to me. And just my $.02 here, but it was obvious to me what you meant by ba and bsl and a perfectly good use of the abreviation. I certainly didn't think you honestly thought one of those chooks was a buff anything

Feed starter until the instructions on the back tell you to switch

LF -- large fowl (as opposed to bantams) ETA means edited to add (so they came back and added it later). HtH <----------------------------------------- hehehehe Hope that helps

Slopes are great; even a pretty steep slope is fine for the chickens (harder for us and fencing though)