Ancona Chicken Thread

[Yellow House Farm]

My Ancona she's 8Weeks is having nothing to do with this raining weather!

No! Make sure they have access to cover lest they get chilled and drop; 8 weeks and rainy weather is borderline.

 

[fiddlebanshee]

sexing straight combed anconas by comb at a young age. Is it possible?

Here are three pics of varying stages of comb development at 5 weeks. No.1 is clearly a rooster, No. 2 I'm not sure as his/her comb is so much smaller than No. 1 but then there's No 3. which is no doubt a hen and her comb is again much smaller than No. 2. I have 8 chicks all the same age and they all fall in each of these three categories, but I only have 1 that is as large as No. 1 below. Could it be that I lucked out with 7 hens and 1 rooster?

Any opinions on No. 2?

No 1. -- rooster?


No 2 -- ?????


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No 3: Hen?

 

[Yellow House Farm]

cockerel, cockerel, pullet

 

[miquwid]

No!  Make sure they have access to cover lest they get chilled and drop; 8 weeks and rainy weather is borderline.

Oh she does I wrapped their coop and run and she's been doing good, you just don't sheet her when there is rain.

 

[SanderB]

Rooster with an ugly comb


Rooster with a nice comb



Hen with a nice comb

 

[Yellow House Farm]

seconded

 

[fiddlebanshee]

Ok guys, thanks for the heads up. Looks like I have 4 roos and 4 hens then.

 

[Alaskan]

I have been searching and searching on Google to no avail.

Are there any breeders of Ancona with a rose comb? Henderson's chicken chart says that they exist....did it lie?

Also, are Anconas very likely to feather pick, and all those nasty things, if in smaller than ideal housing?

Thanks!

 

[heritagehabitatfarms]

look above u and the last few pages of this thread... I believe Yellow House Farm are RC...

I have been searching and searching on Google to no avail.

Are there any breeders of Ancona with a rose comb? Henderson's chicken chart says that they exist....did it lie?

Also, are Anconas very likely to feather pick, and all those nasty things, if in smaller than ideal housing?

Thanks!

 

[Alaskan]

No, yellow house farm mentions the Rose comb Ancona (so popped up on my google search) , but they only breed the single comb.