Posts by lsg1007

Also think your SLW is a pullet

Frankly, I was thinking between Penny and Maxine and that is why I asked if any of your EEs had muffs.  If 2 do, and Ethel is a GLW, then you know the 4th is your partridge (assuming you really do have a plymouth rock).

I agree that Ethel is your GLW.  However, I cannot tell from your pics, but do your EE have little muffs? If so, is there one of the 3 that doesn't...  Wondering if maybe you picked up a partridge plymouth rock.  See if...

Pretty sure Barred Rock is a cockerel - given coloring and comb, suspect BO is a hen.  I am having difficulty with the SLW and RIR given the pic quality

I don't know that I would give up hope on having a GLW hen yet.  There is a thread entitled "5 week Golden Laced Wyandotte chick gender" in which the hen had a comb very similar to yours - her pair were confirmed.  I am...

Thanks for your insight.  I gave our roo in training to a woman who was very much wanting a SLW roo.  My kids were so sad to see him go, I wanted to make sure they wouldn't have to say goodbye again soon. 

Here's an update with the chicks, now at 3 wks.   The probable cockerel on far left, ? pullet in middle and ?australorp pullet on far right.  What I thought was an australorp has developed lacing on her breast.  She...

  is it penciled or laced maybe?  Hard to tell from pic

Thanks Featherland.  I thought he looked like a roo too at the time I bought him(?her), but as it was in the pullet bin I had hope and as it was so sweet and pretty (and it's feathers alternated in length).  I bought the...

Agree 7-10 d difference in youngest to oldest