Sexing eggs and wives tales? 🤔 pure bred hens crossed with buff Orpington rooster results? 🤔 Incubator brand review? 🤔 I got some answers! 😆

[Rapp7]

Baby Chick Updated Pictures 9/9 hatch April 1 (11 days old in pics)
Baby Orp x Barred born 4/6. (6 days old in pic here)
(Have one more baby to post picture of Buff orp x EE hen hatched 4/10) I am leaning toward 2 possible cockerels out of 9 chicks so far.

 

[ThistlePatch]

I am curious how your experiments worked out in the end, all roos, no roos....

 

[Rapp7]

I am curious how your experiments worked out in the end, all roos, no roos....

Hello
I’m still in the “unknown” zone on # of roos / pullets. I had 9/9 hatch I have my suspicions of my roos so far I’m leaning toward 2 out of 9 so far … my buff orp x Barred cross and buff orp x Golden laced (comb is reddening pretty good on this one)!

 

[Rapp7]

***Baby chick updates*** 9/9 hatch:
7/7 chicks are now 3 1/2 weeks old= BUFF ORP X RIR CROSS, BUFF ORP X GOLDEN LACED CROSS, BUFF ORP X BLACK AUSTRALORP CROSS
1 baby chick is 19 days old / BO ROO x barred rock cross
1 baby chick is 15 days old / BO ROO x prairie Bluebell egger cross

2 suspected roos (1) golden lace cross & BR CROSS - pls share your thoughts on if you see any roo characteristics too!

 

[Ridgerunner]

#4, the buff orp over barred rock hen is barred. That makes him a boy. But I'd expect that cross to make a chick that was pretty much black, not sure your adults are actually pure bred.

Still, as long as the father is not barred and the hen is barred that is a boy.

 

[Rapp7]

Hatch experiment update 9/ 9 eggs hatched early APRIL
Old wives tale “sexing eggs” pre hatch:
8 females 1 male
Actual hatch:
4cockerels / 5 Pullets
Conclusion: old wives tales are just that.. tales!
All are from my buff Orpington rooster, but I had a couple surprise mixed;
Easter egger and cream legbar other mixes: golden laced Wyandotte, barred rock, australorp and Rhode Island Red. It’s been a fun experience for sure.

 

[RoostersAreAwesome]

Hatch experiment update 9/ 9 eggs hatched early APRIL
Old wives tale “sexing eggs” pre hatch:
8 females 1 male
Actual hatch:
4cockerels / 5 Pullets
Conclusion: old wives tales are just that.. tales!
All are from my buff Orpington rooster, but I had a couple surprise mixed;
Easter egger and cream legbar other mixes: golden laced Wyandotte, barred rock, australorp and Rhode Island Red. It’s been a fun experience for sure.

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Pip has a rose comb, so she can’t be a cross of BO and cream legbar. She looks like an GLW cross. Are you sure that Buttercup isn’t the legbar cross instead?

 

[NatJ]

I bred my BUFF ORPINGTON ROOSTER with the following hen breeds:
Rhode Island Red (2) fertile eggs, Golden laced Wyandotte (4) fertile eggs, black australorp (1) fertile egg, barred rock (1) fertile egg, Easter egger (1) fertile egg.

If you started with these 9 eggs, why is one of the most recent photos labeled as having a Cream Legbar mother? (chick #6 Pip)

A chick from Buff Orpington x Cream Legbar should have a single comb, and Pip does not seem to have a single comb, so I think you've got a label wrong somehow.

 

[Iluveggers]

Pip has a rose comb, so she can’t be a cross of BO and cream legbar. She looks like an GLW cross. Are you sure that Buttercup isn’t the legbar cross instead?

Ditto dat. You have some very beautiful chickens.

 

[Rapp7]

Hatch experiment update 9/ 9 eggs hatched early APRIL
Old wives tale “sexing eggs” pre hatch:
8 females 1 male
Actual hatch:
4cockerels / 5 Pullets
Conclusion: old wives tales are just that.. tales!
All are from my buff Orpington rooster, but I had a couple surprise mixed;
Easter egger and cream legbar other mixes: golden laced Wyandotte, barred rock, australorp and Rhode Island Red. It’s been a fun experience for sure.

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Pip has a rose comb, so she can’t be a cross of BO and cream legbar. She looks like an GLW cross. Are you sure that Buttercup isn’t the legbar cross instead?

Oops yes you’re correct! Pip is the one with the comb box cl cross and the rose comb Buttercup is a bo x glw cross. Thanks for catching that