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  1. JetBlackJo

    Lavender leghorn chicks

    Well, Nelmsy, if you can get some I would recommend them - they are beautiful, lay lovely white eggs, are quite friendly if handled early and don't go broody (well, mine haven't!). They can fly quite well, but once they know where they should live they don't choose to stray, and they are...
  2. JetBlackJo

    Sexing silkies

    Blair75214 - did your Splash turn out to be a male or female?
  3. JetBlackJo

    Sexing silkies

    Do you have a picture? Even then, it is very young to be sure. Good luck, though!
  4. JetBlackJo

    Sexing silkies

    I'm not expert enough to help, but I hope it's a she - looks lovely!
  5. JetBlackJo

    Lavender Leghorn two

    Good news all! It's a pullet - Yay!
  6. JetBlackJo

    Hens or roosters?

    Yes, we were very lucky - out of a total of 9 chicks only 2 were cockerels!
  7. JetBlackJo

    Sexing silkies

    We were pretty sure that the blue and white leg ringed Silkies were boys, so we took them back to the place we got them - one had just started crowing and the other one looked almost identical wrt the crests. The one with the pink leg ring we kept as her head feathers were entirely different -...
  8. JetBlackJo

    Hens or roosters?

    Just an update on these three - we're 99.9% sure they're all females now! The little one (No 2) has already started laying! Thank you for your help!
  9. JetBlackJo

    Hens or roosters?

    THanks for the advice. I tend to think No 2 is also a hen - "she" is quite timid and seems to be one of the lowest in the pecking order, so that leans towards being a hen, don't you think?
  10. JetBlackJo

    Sexing silkies

    Yes, thanks. That's what I thought - hence the pink leg ring!
  11. JetBlackJo

    New adult hen ran away- please help me she was so nice

    My leghorn flew away one night, but came back the next day - that was after I clipped her wing! They are very good fliers. You only need to clip one wing - the idea is to unbalance her. You just clip the longest feathers in line with the shorter ones - be careful not to clip too close as the...
  12. JetBlackJo

    Sexing silkies

    I have some more photos of the Silkies. I now think two of them are male and one female - what do you think? The one at the front of the first pic and highest up the ramp on the third pic is nearly 2 weeks older than the other two. I think it is male. It hatched on 5th August and the others...
  13. JetBlackJo

    Hens or roosters?

    No 3: (Any ideas on breed(s) would be good too! Thanks!)
  14. JetBlackJo

    Hens or roosters?

    No 2:
  15. JetBlackJo

    Hens or roosters?

    I have three growing chicks that I need to sex as I can't keep roosters in my area because of the noise. One is a Lavender Leghorn, the second is, we think, a Silkie cross (has Silkie feet) and the third is a hybrid of some kind as well. The leghorn hatched on 5th August so is about 3 months...
  16. JetBlackJo

    Sexing silkies

    OK, thank you! Can you tell me how old they are when they start crowing? On average...? And are silkies as loud as any other hen - I've never had them before!
  17. JetBlackJo

    Sexing silkies

    Here is a close up of the comb on the eldest silkie. It was about 2 months old here.
  18. JetBlackJo

    ornamental ~ brahma

    Yes, she is lovely! The supplier has some more at the moment, including a rooster, but I can't have a rooster where I live, so I wouldn't be able to breed from her anyway. Also my husband says if I get any more chickens he'll divorce me! LOL!
  19. JetBlackJo

    Two hybrid chicks - what breed/sex?

    Thank you!
  20. JetBlackJo

    Sexing silkies

    OK - I'll try to do that, thanks!
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