sebright thread

[dsfrango]

Thanks everyone! I enjoy taking pictures of them, they are always so posed! I think I'm going to show them (of course not until the rooster gets his tail feathers back in), do you think they would be good to show or not? I don't know anything about showing Sebrights since I've only had a Sebright pullet once and she died. Then I ended up getting these. 

Those are beautiful sebrights I need another pullet or TWO!

 

[Lady Chickadee]

Those are beautiful sebrights I need another pullet or TWO!

Thanks! Good luck trying to find pullets! I'm going to a swap this weekend to sell chickens, I hope they don't have any sebrights or any other chicken I'm interested in there. I don't want to come home with more chickens than I brought......like the show I went to last weekend.

 

[dsfrango]

Thanks! Good luck trying to find pullets! I'm going to a swap this weekend to sell chickens, I hope they don't have any sebrights or any other chicken I'm interested in there. I don't want to come home with more chickens than I brought......like the show I went to last weekend.

Meant to say I was jealous haha, I no it is very hard

 

[FarmGirl01]

I've got one 3 week old chick and 1 day old so far from the Roo I posted earlier. So far it hasn't been to hard to hatch these babies. The pullet started laying really good about 3 weeks ago. So the chicks are just starting to come.. Have 2 more in the bator, 1 has pip the other one I, can't tell yet.

 

[SelfAsylum]

Are Sebrights hard to breed? And how much should you sell the chicks for?

 

[FarmGirl01]

I've always been told that exhibition Sebrights can be hard to breed and hatch out.

As far as price, it depends on the quality.

 

[4hchickmama]

Sebrights are sometimes not the heartiest chicks...and the hens don't always make the greatest mothers. Depending on quality and age, chicks generally go for $1-$10 on average. Pretty much the same as most other chicks of any breed.

 

[BackyardCoop]

Those are beautiful sebrights I need another pullet or TWO!

Or five or six if you're like me.

haha

 

[Whittni]

Are Sebrights hard to breed? And how much should you sell the chicks for?

Depends on the rooster to hen ratio. They usually go for $10 each for show day olds and about $4 for hatchery sebrights.

 

[SelfAsylum]

I was wondering. I bought 6 chicks this spring, 4 red pullets and two bantams. The two bantams turned out to both be sebrights, even though all the rest of the bantams looked to be OEG's and maybe a couple silkies (though I didn't know this at the time.) The one I picked out because of it's unique gold wings that stood out among the others. This one I am pretty positive is a cockerel and have suspected so from the beginning, not because of color but personality. He has even made what I've considered an attempt "crow" a couple times, and it sure shut the rest of them up..lol. He also has a very big red comb coming in compared to the other one.

The other bantam I picked out because it was the darkest of the bunch. I didn't notice until later when it began getting the gold into the wings that is was also a sebright. Her lacing is speckled black but I'm wondering if she'll grow out of it or into better lacing? The more she ages the more gold she gets. She has a grey/purple comb and an all black head, as well as the male that has really nice lacing, just a red comb.