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post #1 of 8
7/23/12 at 9:25pm
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here are some chicks i have. One is suppose to be a silver spangled hamburg pullet. One is suppose to be a crevecoeur, and the other i have no idea. He has a comb like a hamburg, but i havent seen one in his color.

 

 

 

Hamburg??

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Silver spangled hamburg??

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post #2 of 8
7/24/12 at 8:42am

In terms of the gender you should check their neck feathers. The internet states that rounded neck feathers mean pullet and pointed neck feathers mean rooster. I'm not exactly sure how reliable this method is as we have used this method to make sure the chicks we just bought were all pullets but they are not old enough to be able to tell for sure. For the last one I have a rooster who is a Silver Laced Cochin, so it's a silver something. When he was that age he looked a little less...Well lets just say he aged gracefully after that. Sorry I couldn't be of much help, I hope you can determine what these little ones are.

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post #3 of 8
7/24/12 at 8:46am

As for gender, I think the first is a roo...the second, a silver laced polish, pullet, and the last, pullet.  Sorry, I don't know the breeds for the others.

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post #4 of 8
7/24/12 at 8:53am
Those are poor quality birds of their breed, not to say they are not pretty themselves.. I would say there is a possibility that the first and last one are crosses. Second looks like a polish with poor lacing like Leadwolf said above (silver laced).

As for genders.. Depends on age.

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post #5 of 8
7/24/12 at 10:04am
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the last one is maybe a month old or a little older, the first is about 2 months and the polish i have no idea, it was given to me a few days ago. the first and last one  was hatched from egga i got from under a Silver Spangled Hamburg hens out at my friends ranch, but he had two hamburg roos and 3 old english roos running around, so it is possible for themto be a cross. The polish i have no clue as to its background, it has a beak deformity also

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post #6 of 8
7/24/12 at 10:54am

the first is a cockerel

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post #7 of 8
7/25/12 at 7:06am
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first is for sure a boy, he tryed to crow this morning, I was surprised because hes so young. maybe hes part old english game. The last is A Silver Spangled Hamburg. The middle one i think is a polish, just a mix between two colors. Im hoping the polish and SP Hamburg are pullets

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post #8 of 8
7/25/12 at 8:53am
The last one is at least 6 weeks old because it is fully feathered. I would guess more like 8 weeks. I think it's a girl. The polish.. Again, depends on age. If it is young, rooster. Closer to 4-5 months - pullet.

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