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I have a flock of dual purpose chickens (Ameraucanas, Orpingtons, and Marans) that I can cross to produce sex links. Easy enough to sell the pullets, and I keep the cocks for table. However, I've just been feeding them regular chick feed and then all-flock feed from about 12 weeks on. I want to...

Y'all. I have a PLAN. A perfectly good breeding plan that involves waiting until February to implement it and I come here and it's just whole forums of chicks! And hatching eggs! Remind me that I don't want to brood babies in winter, that I need a whole month to get the right roo x hen combo...

I live in Iowa and the windchill during winter can hit -40°. My Orpington rooster is molting and one of the pin feathers on his neck must've broken, because the hens plucked him naked and now he has a mullet. I'm worried about the exposed skin now that we are heading into the colder months and...

I have 3 cockerels. 1 was hatched in October, the other 2 in November, so they're 7-8 months old by this point, but no egg I've gotten yet is fertile. I see them dancing and mounting the pullets, and my pullets have been laying for almost two months. Is this normal? Like, not a single egg...

I have a 16 wk old cockerel and some 20ish week old pullets. The cockerel has started mating with one of the pullets in particular (as in, mating ONLY with this female), and I'm curious if it means she is starting to reach or has reached PoL. This is the first breeding behavior I have seen...

I apologize if this isn't the right place for this question, but I have a pretty Easter egger pullet with a pattern I don't know what to call. Could someone help me out? I've seen the same coloring on other birds

And I LOVE it! Each square is a pocket. :D Anyone else here have any crochet or knit things for their chickens?

Wondering what you would call the coloring and markings of these two, besides "mottled as all get out". I briefly steered into tolbunt but I don't think that's correct. These guys do excellently in my chunnel during the winter, sometimes I can't find them until they move, although I wish they...

I have 4 roosters I would like to rehome. The Icelandic is a rare landrace that is cold hardy, an excellent forager, and lays medium white eggs. They don't have an SOP or breed "look", but I guarantee all of these are Icelandics. The boys are well-behaved but appropriately standoffish, and I...

I hatched out a batch of eggs about 6 weeks ago and it looks like 6 of the 11 are cockerels (comb and wattle growth + red shoulders are my primary indicators). They're a little young to determine which are definitely keepers but I'm hoping some of the more experienced chicken tenders can give me...

My last orpingtons didn't even get pink until they were ready for PoL at 16 weeks. This one will be 8 weeks on Saturday. Cockerel?

Full disclosure-- I don't actually care if it turns out that no, I didn't get what was advertised, I'm more curious than anything. I bought 6 silver laced chocolate orpington hatching eggs to incubate (along with some others) and the babies arrived today. Only 2 made it, but they look very...

Heyo! Old member coming back after several years -- I had a flock of 17 when I lived in Washington after getting out of the military, but still-enlisted Husbando got orders to California and the chickens couldn't come. Now that Lady Navy no longer gets a slice of me OR my man, we've contracted...

This is mostly for my own benefit; I couldn't find any information on this cross, so I went ahead and did it myself. I'll keep track of the progress of the chicks and we will see which ones are roos and which ones are pullets. Unfortunately I won't be able to repeat the experiment but maybe...

I crossed a Blue Wheaten ameraucana with production reds. The blue wheaten males are distinguishable from the pullets at a pretty early age, and my chicks are growing in white and brown wing feathers, like their dad had. Granted, they're less than a week old, but will the autosexing continue...

....what a Blue Wheaten Am roo over a Production Red hen made, the answer is STINKIN CUTE BABIES. I had 6 eggs. All hatched but only 5 survived. They are all reddish yellow with yellow legs, and two have little black squiggles on their heads. Their wing feathers look to be growing in white and...

I went to set my eggs for lockdown, carefully candeling each, one marking the air sack, adjusting the humidity on my incubator, and putting a grippy surface on the smooth plastic so they don't slip around once they hatch, and as I went to put the eggs back in I noticed one of them had pipped...

We are moving to California in a few months and I don't know if I will be able to bring my Blue Wheaten Ameraucana, Wilbur. I added him to my flock so I could get Olive Egger babies, and now that I don't know if I'll him as long as I'd like I went out and got an incubator for my birthday. : D...

Wilbur is a Blue Wheaten Americauna. His flock is 2 Lavender Orpingtons and 3 RIR. I just got an incubator, because we are moving and likely can't take Wilbur to our new locale, so I wanted to know if anyone would have any ideas what his babies would look like. I know they would be green laying...

I think my BCM needs to calibrate her "spraypainter", she's giving me striped eggs!