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My hubby found this sweet chick abandoned on his walk yesterday. Brought it home (and it's currently the perfect friend to the orphaned duckling that made it's way into our yard a few days ago - the joys of living in the country!). I'm just trying to figure out the likely breed. My first thought...

Long time chicken mama here (currently have 30+ in our flock), but first time duck mama. We picked up these 2 cuties this weekend at the local feed store. They were both supposed to be Mallards, but even in just the past few days, one has grown considerably faster than the other. Between that...

We have 15 chicks that are around 9 weeks old. Most of them I can determine to be pullets (all were supposed to be pullets). But I am so stumped on my Polishes! Help me please! We have 5, and the White Crested Black and Buff Laced I'm pretty sure are pullets. But these 3 I don't know. Their...

I know it's early and I'm probably just gonna have to wait, but would love to hear any thoughts from Polish experts on my 6 week old Polishes. I have my suspicions, but try not to get too confident since at this stage the crest is as much a function of how much the other chicks like to peck at...

Any cochin experts here? We picked up a batch of 15 new babies to add to our flock last month. They're all now 3-4 weeks old or so. We bought a variety and they've all fairly quickly started feathering out, except our little Self-Blue Cochin. At 2 weeks, it finally started developing wing...

Meet Bertha (darker chicken in front). Maybe 15 weeks old? Sold to us as a Blue Cuckoo Marans, which she clearly is not. But what is she??? Thanks!

All 3 of these were sold as Pullets and are around 5 weeks old. So still young to definitely sex, but wanted to see if anyone had thoughts yet. The White Crested Black Polish is looking more pullet to me, but the Silver Laced has me more concerned with that rockstar hair. It's possible the other...

We recently added 9 new chicks to our flock. Most of them were easy to identify breed (Polish, Faverolle, Marans, etc.). But then I got these 4 and they're stumping me..based on what we bought, they should be: 1 Easter Egger 1 Olive Egger 1 Cream Legbar 1 Speckled Sussex But I can't figure out...

We just picked up this Cuckoo Marans at the local feed store. She's probably a little under 2 weeks old. She was sold as a pullet. But I'm reading that they can be sexed based on wing pattern and head spots even at this age. The uniform barring on the wings, comb already forming and larger head...

Hi! We got this hen from a friend who didn't know her breed. She's about a year and a half old, so fully grown. Her coloring screams Wynadotte to me and she has the rose comb, but she's nowhere near as heavy as our other Wyandottes have been. She's a smaller bodied bird (normal size, not...

Thoughts on these 7 week old barnyard mixes? (We have Ee/Gold Laced Wyandotte mix Roo and 1 RIR Roo so they're either RIR or Ee mixes. Hens are Delawares, black sex link, Ees and Wyandottes). The red one has me thinking roo with that coloring and comb, but comb has been like that since 3 weeks...

We have 2 black hens in our flock and have never known their breed (feed store we bought them from didn't even know). They're almost 18 months old now and lay light tan, sometimes speckled eggs. They're a bit more petite than the rest of our flock, but not bantam size. They're mostly black and...

Our broody hen hatched these sweet chickies almost 3 weeks ago and I'm trying to figure out what breeds they are. We have a decent mix in our flock right now - in our flock of hens we have 3 Delawares, 2 Wynadottes (1 buff laced and 1 blue), 3 Easter Eggers and 2 black of some variety (they're...

We have a broody hen who just hatched 4 eggs over the past week. I didn't fully latch their coop this morning and she decided to take her babies out foraging in the bigger pen. We found her an hour later with only 3 chicks. We're assuming something got one of the chicks. :-( It was a rough...

Hi! First time poster here and I need help. We have a flock of 12 chickens, with 2 roosters in the flock that have been raised since birth together and it has worked fine because rooster #2 (a Rhode Island Red) lets #1 (Easter Egger) rule the flock. No fighting or anything. Rooster #1 is a...