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post #31 of 86
1/5/12 at 10:04pm
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Originally Posted by bairo 

OK...I was going cross eyed there for a minute. Let me just put it all in one post. In the order that you posted pics

roo, pullet, roo, roo, extremely confused (eyes say roo, feathers say pullet)


cockerel, cockerel, cockerel, pullet, pullet...1st three the combs and wattles are way to red and large to be pullets while the last 2 they have really small combs almost no wattle development and they arent red.

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post #32 of 86
1/5/12 at 10:10pm
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Originally Posted by bairo 

OK...I was going cross eyed there for a minute. Let me just put it all in one post. In the order that you posted pics

roo, pullet, roo, roo, extremely confused (eyes say roo, feathers say pullet)


cockerel, cockerel, cockerel, pullet, pullet...1st three the combs and wattles are way to red and large to be pullets while the last 2 they have really small combs almost no wattle development and they arent red.


side bet, side bet. lau

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post #33 of 86
1/5/12 at 10:18pm
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Originally Posted by bairo 
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Originally Posted by hdowden 
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Originally Posted by bairo 

OK...I was going cross eyed there for a minute. Let me just put it all in one post. In the order that you posted pics

roo, pullet, roo, roo, extremely confused (eyes say roo, feathers say pullet)


cockerel, cockerel, cockerel, pullet, pullet...1st three the combs and wattles are way to red and large to be pullets while the last 2 they have really small combs almost no wattle development and they arent red.


side bet, side bet. lau


lol not going by feathers yet if they were around 12-20 weeks i would go by feathers to wink

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post #34 of 86
1/5/12 at 10:22pm
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Originally Posted by hdowden 
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Originally Posted by bairo 
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cockerel, cockerel, cockerel, pullet, pullet...1st three the combs and wattles are way to red and large to be pullets while the last 2 they have really small combs almost no wattle development and they arent red.


side bet, side bet. lau


lol not going by feathers yet if they were around 12-20 weeks i would go by feathers to wink


I agree mostly....but I have to push the envelope a little on this one to beat all the old timers to the punch (oh wait im an old timer, uhhh I mean really old timers)

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post #35 of 86
1/5/12 at 10:34pm
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Originally Posted by bairo 
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Originally Posted by hdowden 
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side bet, side bet. lau


lol not going by feathers yet if they were around 12-20 weeks i would go by feathers to wink


I agree mostly....but I have to push the envelope a little on this one to beat all the old timers to the punch (oh wait im an old timer, uhhh I mean really old timers)


although some of those splash do look like they have a little red coloring coming in on the feathers hmm

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post #36 of 86
1/5/12 at 10:43pm

I hatched 9 cockerels to 2 pullets.....Grrrrrrrrrrrrrr......but I wouldn't wish the Rooster Queen title on anybody. It took me best part of a year to re-home most of them, then one of the two I decided to keep died......somebody does't like me!

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post #37 of 86
1/6/12 at 8:09am
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Originally Posted by bairo 

OK...I was going cross eyed there for a minute. Let me just put it all in one post. In the order that you posted pics

roo, pullet, roo, roo, pullet

and the last one was real tough..she has the eyes of a roo, but its a pullet. I bet almost anything she will be #1 hen in flock.

Let us know when they crow or lay....I want to know what I win cool


Bairo, you will win the first egg laid by the girls.  Provided they don't crow!  big_smile

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post #38 of 86
1/6/12 at 8:10am
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I hatched 9 cockerels to 2 pullets.....Grrrrrrrrrrrrrr......but I wouldn't wish the Rooster Queen title on anybody. It took me best part of a year to re-home most of them, then one of the two I decided to keep died......somebody does't like me!


If you were a tad closer, I could give you a few roos of your choosing.  lol

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post #39 of 86
1/6/12 at 8:11am
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lol not going by feathers yet if they were around 12-20 weeks i would go by feathers to wink


I agree mostly....but I have to push the envelope a little on this one to beat all the old timers to the punch (oh wait im an old timer, uhhh I mean really old timers)


although some of those splash do look like they have a little red coloring coming in on the feathers hmm


It may be grunge rather than red.  At least I hope so!

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post #40 of 86
1/6/12 at 8:12am
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Originally Posted by bairo 

OK...I was going cross eyed there for a minute. Let me just put it all in one post. In the order that you posted pics

roo, pullet, roo, roo, extremely confused (eyes say roo, feathers say pullet)


cockerel, cockerel, cockerel, pullet, pullet...1st three the combs and wattles are way to red and large to be pullets while the last 2 they have really small combs almost no wattle development and they arent red.


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I would be willing to bet wink

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Lost everything in a barn fire 2/11/13. Can't even pull it together.

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