He is gorgeous!!!😍 His tail feathers are so pretty.
And yes we definitely will not be able to keep the roosters sadly :(
I will update in a few weeks with more pictures and hopefully it will be clearer then:) I hope your chickens stay in good health! Thanks for all your help
Yes! At first we tried feather sexing at 1 week and thought we had 5 pullets of the seven and were so excited, but then their combs started to grow in and well- here we are 😂. Turns out I am not as good at feather sexing as I thought I would be!
We thought for sure we would get at least 2 out...
Yes I agree. It’s just so hard to not worry and question at 4 weeks, but I know thinks can change in the blink of an eye before 8 weeks😅. We definitely will not be doing anything with them until 8 weeks. I’m sorry about your two orpingtons turned roos! This photo I just took kind of shows why we...
:( I have that as my gut feeling as well, but #2 is developing much slower then the other 5 that we believe are cockerels. Can I ask why you are quite sure? Is it because of the waddles? In some lighting they look pale and are much smaller then all the others chicks but in other lighting it is...
Hello,
I am a new chicken owner and have a straight run of 7 Lavender Orpington Chickens. We bought seven in hopes of having at least two hens. We are almost sure that 4 are cockerels and at least one is a pullet. We are unsure of 2 but leaning towards cockerel for one and completely unsure of...