Leghorns are great egg laying chickens. They are friendly to other Leghorns and can easily fly. The only problems is that they are bad in the pecking order and they can make a mess of the yard....
I will start by saying that I love Australorps. In fact, my very favorite hen is an Australorp. She is such a sweet chicken and just let's you walk right up to her to pick her up. She doesn't run...
seem like a good breed, if i had the room i would probably raise a batch of them they seem like they would be a good 4h starter show bird...considering i dont see many of this breed in my class...
its a feed scooper it cant be perfect but over all when every thing is said an done i love mine its great its starting to show a little wear an tear but its to be expected i have had it for 4...
It's not so much the three rows as the fact that they're raised at 4 weeks. I have an araucana bantam girl with three perfect rows in her pea comb, but it's only just gotten that raised and she's 20 weeks old. Sorry for your luck - I'm having pretty much the same this year. I'll get a couple layers and a year's worth of dinners of it, though...
~Meg~ The remaining 6 of my original 7 barred rocks are 3yrs old and happily divided between a friend and my mom. Laying: 2 Partridge Rocks, 1 Columbian Wyandotte and 2 Black Australorps. 14 weeks: 3 bantam Araucana. Cowed to chicken math and sharing my bedroom with 8 BBS Ameraucana mixes.
~Meg~ The remaining 6 of my original 7 barred rocks are 3yrs old and happily divided between a friend and my mom. Laying: 2 Partridge Rocks, 1 Columbian Wyandotte and 2 Black Australorps. 14 weeks: 3 bantam Araucana. Cowed to chicken math and sharing my bedroom with 8 BBS Ameraucana mixes.
You keep concentrating on the comb. Now, I can't tell mine until they freaking crow, but what I have noticed is that the roo's have a comb that has the gap behind, is bigger and redder. In other words it goes back further than where it attaches to the scalp. The way I have seemed to notice is the tail feathers. If I read it on here correctly, the hens tail feathers develop faster than the rooster, since the rooster ultimately has the longer plumage.
That said, I am guessing both pullets. That and $5.00 might get you a cup of coffee at Starbucks lol!
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