I’m new to keeping Easter Eggers, I hatched them 10 February, they are around 13 weeks old. I think I have guessed the sex of 1, but I’m struggling with these. Please help me identify if they’re boys or girls?
I am a huge lover of back yard bred chickens, especially crosses. My latest is a rooster that I rescued as a week old chick while house sitting for my cousin. He was being pecked on by his siblings. I took him home (Hoping he would be a she) amd hand raised him. Yes, he has spent the last 7...
They look like speckeldy hybrids. Cross between barred rock and a possibly a golden comet or something. Very good layers. Mine is almost 8 months old and is a cross of a South African version of the barred rock called a Potch koekoek rooster and a Lohman Brown hen.
The second photo is of a chick that pipped and then mommy got up, she literally got shrink wrapped in the egg. I got to her 12 hours later, she was still alive in the egg, so I helped her out. She was very weak, my wife kept her in her bra for a few hours, that night I put her back under her...
The easiest way to tell is if they are going red on the comb and wattles, girls remain ‘colourless’ until they are close to lay, whilst the boys could start showing redness from 4 weeks already in some breeds.