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    Pullet or Cockerel?

    Despite having a medical degree, all these barring genetics are so confusing to me! It wasn't an intentional cross, but the cream leg bars go broody every summer and are lovely mothers, so we usually let them hatch out one brood each year (they share the incubation and the raising between the...
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    Not Sure If You've Got A Pullet Or Cockerel? Click Here! Thread 2

    Thanks. We will look at separating this and the male so that the laying siblings (the hatch-mate araucanas and the black one, as well as some younger buff orps who they share a coop with are all laying) can continue on the layers pellets. I usually start mixing and switching over to layers when...
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    Not Sure If You've Got A Pullet Or Cockerel? Click Here! Thread 2

    I hear what you're saying, thank you. Weird though that this is the only bird that hasn't developed as much (if indeed a male). The others have reached full size (compared to older birds in our main flock - these guys are separate) and beginning to grow/lay. Just this one seems ambiguous. So...
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    Not Sure If You've Got A Pullet Or Cockerel? Click Here! Thread 2

    They get organic layers pellets and mixed corn (started on chick crumbs then growers pellets until around 18 weeks) . There is another (pullet) sibling who is a touch bigger and plain black, and two lavender Araucanas hatched at the same time who are clearly female. Usually they get a lot of...
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    Pullet or Cockerel?

    Oh right, thanks. So it could be a barred female? :)
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    Pullet or Cockerel?

    He's white
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    Not Sure If You've Got A Pullet Or Cockerel? Click Here! Thread 2

    I'm flummoxed! These two birds are siblings - cross between cream legbar mother and bantam Pekin father. I have always understood that offspring of barred hens are always male if barred. These are both barred but at 8m old one is so clearly a cockerel - bright red and well developed comb and...
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    Pullet or Cockerel?

    I'm flummoxed! These two birds are siblings - cross between cream legbar mother and bantam Pekin father. I have always understood that offspring of barred hens are always male if barred. These are both barred but at 8m old one is so clearly a cockerel - bright red and well developed comb and...
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    Not Sure If You've Got A Pullet Or Cockerel? Click Here! Thread 2

    Oh that's interesting to know, thanks! I guess I got hopeful when I saw the comb and wattles much paler and less developed, but maybe he's just a slow developer!
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    Not Sure If You've Got A Pullet Or Cockerel? Click Here! Thread 2

    Mummy is a crested cream legbar and Daddy is a white pekin bantam.
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    Not Sure If You've Got A Pullet Or Cockerel? Click Here! Thread 2

    Any idea on this cutie? Thanks in advance! :)
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    Not Sure If You've Got A Pullet Or Cockerel? Click Here! Thread 2

    Thanks! Any ideas from the experts? :)
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    Not Sure If You've Got A Pullet Or Cockerel? Click Here! Thread 2

    This is a cream legbar X pekin cross. There are three chicks with very similar colouring and I initially thought all three were boys, but one chick is smaller and the comb and wattles are less developed and more a pearly pink than bright red so I wondered if it might be a girl after all (the...
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    HELP PLEASE! Swollen neck and lethargic turkey

    Update - HE LIVES! I tried aspirating and got some air out but it just kept collecting there again. He was so sickly and I really thought he would die. I gave him some metronidazole as I had seen it recommended in another forum, cayenne in his water, and kept him separated for a few days from...
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    Sick bird with swollen neck - help please!

    Update - the neck swelling is going down slowly. I aspirated a little but it kept coming back. He is soooo much better and back to his usual strutting self, thank goodness! Thanks for the advice xx
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