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post #21 of 25
12/25/08 at 5:46pm
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Thank you all very much it gives me hope. As she grows is there any behavour except for egg laying of course that will point to her being a pullet and not a late developing roster?

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post #22 of 25
2/25/12 at 9:46pm

i think its a roo because my araucana is 10 weeks and its tail poped out on the first day of week

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post #23 of 25
2/26/12 at 4:38am
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Thank you all very much it gives me hope. As she grows is there any behavour except for egg laying of course that will point to her being a pullet and not a late developing roster?



Araucanas can be quite difficult to sex - until they crow! roll.png  I was sold an Araucana hen (by an experienced breeder!) and she was gorgeous ... then she started looking particularly handsome and then a few weeks later again, he crowed.

 

I hatched an araucana last Spring which I was convinced was a pullet.   Unfortunately, she died before maturity, but what I did notice was that the  neck feathers were curling towards the back of the neck;  same thing as the hen who was a cockerel.   

 

I now have a lavendar araucana hen and she definately does *not* have the curl back feathers.   From your picture, your bird doesn't have the feathers curling towards the back of its neck, so I would say you have a hen.  

 

Another thing I noticed with the s/he (before he crowed) was the feathers at the base of its spine, but above the tail feathers, began to grow longer and spikier.

 

Good luck with your bird, she's pretty smile.png

 

 

 

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post #24 of 25
2/26/12 at 7:01am

DEFINITALLY a rooster. You'd better send her-whoops, I meant him- to me! wink.png But no, I think pullet.

I have five hens and two pullets- one seven year old red star, Luna, one white leghorn, Sage, one SLW, Pepper, one adorable fluffy EE, Bedazzle, and one black star, Buckbeak. My two pullets are Nutella, my wheaten marans, thirty five weeks, (who is yet to lay an egg!), and her best friend, Sammy, seventeen weeks.

 

 

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I have five hens and two pullets- one seven year old red star, Luna, one white leghorn, Sage, one SLW, Pepper, one adorable fluffy EE, Bedazzle, and one black star, Buckbeak. My two pullets are Nutella, my wheaten marans, thirty five weeks, (who is yet to lay an egg!), and her best friend, Sammy, seventeen weeks.

 

 

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post #25 of 25
2/26/12 at 7:36am

This thread was over 3 YEARS old! LOL. The OP was in New Zealand, though, don't their ameraucanas have tufts?

 

And while I;m picking, ducks waDDle, chickens have waTTles! This drives me crazy!

Wendy, chemist, mama to 4 human children, a crazy Husky/Australian Shepherd cross dog, a cat, several fish, bunnies, 17 goats,and our ever growing flock of chickens, ducks, turkeys, and geese.

My oldest son is breeding BBS Orps! Looking for breeding stock!

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Wendy, chemist, mama to 4 human children, a crazy Husky/Australian Shepherd cross dog, a cat, several fish, bunnies, 17 goats,and our ever growing flock of chickens, ducks, turkeys, and geese.

My oldest son is breeding BBS Orps! Looking for breeding stock!

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