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post #1 of 10
11/25/09 at 11:43am
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We recently added two polish babies to our flock, we were pretty sure they were both female, however....one of them (the silver laced) seems to have a mohawk. Could this be male?
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post #2 of 10
11/25/09 at 12:34pm

They look girlish but is too early.Need few more weeks.

Black Leghorns- they are my main attention, White Leghorn,I still have a few Light Brown Leghorns, but am not going to breed them.I keep small flock GS Barred Rocks, small flock New Hampshire's and am starting to think about good SLW. I do not call myself Breeder- I am backyard chicken lover.

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Black Leghorns- they are my main attention, White Leghorn,I still have a few Light Brown Leghorns, but am not going to breed them.I keep small flock GS Barred Rocks, small flock New Hampshire's and am starting to think about good SLW. I do not call myself Breeder- I am backyard chicken lover.

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post #3 of 10
11/25/09 at 3:20pm

ya its way to hard to tell.

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post #4 of 10
11/25/09 at 6:14pm

Yup too early because if I have to guess now, I would say both roos, lol, but it really is too early. Ask us again in a few weeks.

BTW Japanese,mille fleur Jap project,  corturnix quail, some red chickens I got at TSC, one EE and 2 EE chicks, and some really poor pyncheons, 10 ducks and 2 welsh harlequin ducklings,  one pheasant hen, one pheasant chick, one MFC chick, 2 Norwegian Jaerhon chicks.
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BTW Japanese,mille fleur Jap project,  corturnix quail, some red chickens I got at TSC, one EE and 2 EE chicks, and some really poor pyncheons, 10 ducks and 2 welsh harlequin ducklings,  one pheasant hen, one pheasant chick, one MFC chick, 2 Norwegian Jaerhon chicks.
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post #5 of 10
11/28/09 at 7:43am

too early to tell yet but i think they are both rooster
im sorry if that not what you wanted to hear jumpy

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post #6 of 10
11/29/09 at 5:32pm
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Thank you for everyones opinion, I was taking a good close up look earlier tonight and the one with the mohawk looks like "he-she" has the beginnings of wattles (sp?). So I am thinking that lacey is probably a him.

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post #7 of 10
12/1/09 at 5:01am

To early to tell but I think both roos.

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post #8 of 10
12/1/09 at 8:22am

at that age my roo looked like a girl and the hen looked like a boy after a few more weeks they looked totally different once the feathers started coming in more.

Mommy to a 2y.o. lil girl named Presley, chocolate minpin Carly 12y.o., black/rust minpin Tori 11 y.o., Maltese Lacey 10 y.o., Orange tabby Louie 1 y.o., 8 rabbits, Koi pond, 6 bantam pullets and one silkie cockerel, 2 call ducks and one patient DH!!!
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Mommy to a 2y.o. lil girl named Presley, chocolate minpin Carly 12y.o., black/rust minpin Tori 11 y.o., Maltese Lacey 10 y.o., Orange tabby Louie 1 y.o., 8 rabbits, Koi pond, 6 bantam pullets and one silkie cockerel, 2 call ducks and one patient DH!!!
http://sheilaccl.blogspot.com/
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post #9 of 10
12/1/09 at 8:23am

based on what mine looked like, that looks like a roo. But then again I've never seen what the baby girls look like.  They are sweet roosters, just so you know!

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post #10 of 10
12/1/09 at 5:14pm

Both roos, But is IS early...

~Blackbird~

Chicken obsessed since who knows!  

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~Blackbird~

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