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These are the chicks at 6 weeks. Just about fully feathered and ready to move outside! I’m now certain of my boys and girls! Bluey: my pretty girl with her cute little crest! Queenie: also certain she’s a girl: Goldie: by far my biggest boy, while he protests when I seperate him, he...

thanks! I’ve never had barred chickens and they looked different to barred purebreds I’ve googled! Can’t wait to see how they grow out.

My old australorp girls looked like that at that age. Other two look girlyish but ik boy too familiar with those breeds!

Thankyou for your reply! Will this sort of feathering end up being barred? The chicks are a bit over 5 weeks in the pics . Parents are a legbar dad and either splash or cuckoo Maran Mum, possibly a welsummer Mum. First pic is suspected boy who I’ve only just started to see a bit of barring on...

So the chicks are now five weeks! I’m playing with them almost every day and they’re getting a lot more interactive and love jumping up on me. Im watching them a lot for roo signs. I’m sure Bluey, Queenie and Splodge are girls. Goldie surely is a rooster with her comb and pink wattles, but then...

Nawwww I’m really sorry that you lost some :( Thanks for replying though! Very interesting some with pink coming through at 5 weeks ended up pullets 🥳

Hello, I’m just going back to this thread...what if you had a cream legbar roo over a splash Maran? What would they look like and would they be sex linked? And what about CCL over a cuckoo Maran?

Hi, just checking in...who from your first lot ended up as girls and boys? Sitting with my 5 week old chicks pondering who’s what!

That is interesting! I’m glad she laid such a lovely coloured egg for you 😁

So just separating from progress and thoughts, here’s some snaps from our week. I love how quickly they adapt to chicken nature, eg. I pop them down onto the grass at 3.5 wks and they start dust bathing! I’ve also seen them do the chirp and run thing when they find a treat, it’s just so cute. So...

A couple days late but these are the chicks at 4 weeks. Their 4th week of life has been exciting, they’ve moved into a mansion brooder with perches, they’ve had their first visit outside with dirt baths and enjoyed their first treats of cooked egg, yoghurt, lettuce and pear! They’re all getting...

That is so funny! The cream legbar rooster is barred so his offspring can be barred but not always depending on what the mum is (that’s about as much as I’ve picked up on chicken genetics! :p). But yes, I love all my mutts too no matter what they are.

still a really nice coloured speckly egg! I have a bunch of four week old olive Eggers, but decided I would prob prefer a paler green like yours! I’ve recently seen the term “sage egger” which I think is a welsummer cross blue layer. Yours looks like a sage 😊

Very pretty 😍 I think they look like girls! Hope they are!

I want more 😂