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Little mutt bird, any guesses on sex?

post #1 of 19
1/1/12 at 10:17am
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This funny looking little friend is 6 weeks old. Mom is a leghorn and dad is a Lakenvelder. He is the sweetest thing, always trying to climb up on your shoulder or get into your pocket (though he doesn't fit anymore). He was the only baby who made it from a small hatch so I don't have any others to compare. Any guesses on gender? I know it's early, but no harm asking? smile

Thanks for any ideas!

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post #2 of 19
1/1/12 at 10:28am

To young to even attempt to venture an educated guess.

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post #3 of 19
1/1/12 at 10:41am

At 6 weeks and no comb development (especially with the mom being a Leghorn), I think you have a pullet.

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post #4 of 19
1/1/12 at 5:55pm

i think pullet. It's really cute, almost looks like a crow had a baby with a chicken

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post #5 of 19
1/1/12 at 5:58pm

I say Rooster. He has large legs and a boyish posture. That black skin can fool ya. Is that a walnut comb in the making?
Are you absolutely positive about that parentage. From 2 single combed parents, where did that little one get his?

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post #6 of 19
1/1/12 at 6:18pm

My friend has hatchery white leghorns...one of them has a rose comb...who knows if the parents are from hatchery stock, but I too have doubt about it's lineage....was it a white leghorn? I thought leghorn white "covers up" other colors, making the bird predominantly white, yellow legs, and white skin (black skin on comb of this bird)? The earlobes look kindof yellow too?

Can you get a good close up of the comb for us?

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post #7 of 19
1/1/12 at 6:21pm

His expression says roo to me, but I don't see comb development. So I don't know but he sure is adorable.

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post #8 of 19
1/1/12 at 6:23pm
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Originally Posted by kari_dawn 

My friend has hatchery white leghorns...one of them has a rose comb...who knows if the parents are from hatchery stock, but I too have doubt about it's lineage....was it a white leghorn? I thought leghorn white "covers up" other colors, making the bird predominantly white, yellow legs, and white skin (black skin on comb of this bird)? The earlobes look kindof yellow too?

Can you get a good close up of the comb for us?


It's my understanding as well about the white cover-up. I believe it to be a dominant trait. I feel fairly certain that one cannot get black skin from that parentage.

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post #9 of 19
1/1/12 at 7:13pm

It looks like a pullet to me. wink

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post #10 of 19
1/1/12 at 8:19pm

It's a pullet. Leghorns and Lakenvelders are both large-combed breeds, so by now on a cockerel you would see some development. Unless it's a weird slow-developing one, they happen on occasion.

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My wish-list: Old English Game Bantams, American Game, D'uccles, Japanese Bantams, Bantam Cornish, Large Fowl Cornish, Lakenvelders, Welsummers, Kraienkoppen, Andalusians, Speckled Sussex, Cubalaya, Sumatra, Easter Egger (large and bantam), Orpingtons, Iowa Blue, Marans...I think I'm going to need a lot of pens!
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Currently chicken-less, hoping to get a fresh start soon.
My wish-list: Old English Game Bantams, American Game, D'uccles, Japanese Bantams, Bantam Cornish, Large Fowl Cornish, Lakenvelders, Welsummers, Kraienkoppen, Andalusians, Speckled Sussex, Cubalaya, Sumatra, Easter Egger (large and bantam), Orpingtons, Iowa Blue, Marans...I think I'm going to need a lot of pens!
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