Actually 5, 7, 9, & 10 are all the same chicken. #8 and 11 are the other LO.:idunno
Getting pictures of them now that they are out with the big girls is so challenging...
Thank you, chicken knowledgeable, friends! My suspicions are that the Isbar, BCM, 1 LO and 1 Brabanter (mohawk) are males. #9 is the one I think is a pullet but I do not have much successful experience with gender calls... I have an opportunity to send the cockerels to a hobby farm that does...
These sweet chicks are approximately 8 weeks. There are 9. Three are definitely pullets (a Cream Legbar and 2 Swedish Flowers) but the other 6, I fear have some gentlemanly tendencies. The others in question are Black Copper Marans (1), Isbar (1), Lavender Orpingtons (2), and Brabanters (2)...
OK... Sorry it took me so long.. We have 9 four-week old chicks. I am pretty sure a couple are boys wondering about guesses whether pullet or cockerel. Here are the Brabanters. This is my first time with this breed and I can not find much online about them. There are two. One is cream and one...
Such a bummer. Of the four, he is the calmest and easiest to pick up. Comes up to me every day and just sits down in front of me, takes dandelion leaves from my hand, or watches me clean the coop. I hate to sell him but we can not have roos this close to the city. *sigh*
Thank you! I will get pics of them later this week and post them here. I volunteer at a day camp all week so I probably wont get to it until Friday.
Thank you all for your help :)
Thank you! The variety and beauty of the chicken breeds is one of the top draws for me. I really wanted that EE to be a pullet because she was so pretty. It seems like the cutest chicks are always boys :barnie
My husband really likes the pattern on the GLW - he is happy that the consensus is...
Oh! So red splotches = cockerel? OK. I didn't know that.
Also, if the red comb before 16 weeks indicates a male, I think (very sadly) that I have four more roos in the making... I have an Isbar, 2 Lavender Orps, and a Black Copper Marans who have red combs already and only 3 weeks old :hmm
Oh...
Shoot! If you are all correct, then my husband was right - and he doesn't even know anything about chickens! :lau I got the EE to add color to my (eventual) egg basket so I am bummed.
What are the distinguishing features that led to the "roo" diagnosis about the EE vs the GLW? The GLW's behavior...
My husband and I are debating the gender of these 8-9 week old chickens. I think one is a little Roo in training and he thinks it is the other. (We heard a suspicious squawk this morning!) One is a Gold Laced Wyandotte. The other (white and red) is an Easter Egger (RIR cross, I guess). Praying...
LOL! I had no idea there was a good way to take pics :D My husband and I just wanted to make sure we showed off his/her beauty in case our next stop is the sale website ... so sad. I will try starting my own and see if that gets me anywhere. Thanks for the tip!