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    12 week Lavender Orpington gender

    Your birds are beautiful!! I’m hoping they are all hens too! Yours are for sure looking like girls to me, but I’m no expert 😄 It’s nice that you have more than one to be able to co They really are giant birds! I tried to pick breeds that handle the cold well since we are in Minnesota! Good...
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    12 week Lavender Orpington gender

    Bummer!! Thank you for your help, I’m brand new to chickens so it’s nice having backyardchickens as a resource. He was the smallest chick in the batch of lavender orpingtons so I thought for sure it would be a hen, but rookie move I guess 😄 I’ll wait to give him away until he starts crowing...
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    12 week Lavender Orpington gender

    Here’s some pics of the back, hopefully I captured what you were looking for! Thank you for your input!
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    12 week Lavender Orpington gender

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    12 week Lavender Orpington gender

    Thank you! 😩
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    12 week Lavender Orpington gender

    😭thanks for your response!
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    12 week Lavender Orpington gender

    I’m worried my 12 week Lavender Orpington is a roo, any guesses? No crowing yet. I will have to get rid of it if it’s a boy since I can’t have roosters in my city, so I’m really hoping It’s a girl 🤞🏼
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    Hello!

    I should also mention, the Speckled Sussex was about 2 weeks old when we got her so she’s more like 9 weeks. The others are 7 weeks!
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    Hello!

    Here they are! They sure are hard to get pics of 😄 I’m concerned the lavender Orpington might be a rooster from what I’ve read, but I’m really hoping not!! 🤞🏼
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    Hello!

    Hello! My husband and I are brand new to owning chickens! We got our first batch of chicks from a local feed store about 7 weeks ago. We are only allowed 4 and no roosters in our city. We have a lavender Orpington, Buff Orpington, Barred Rock and a Speckled Sussex. we are really enjoying our...
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