FWIW I now have a 16 week old Barney pullet called Neil Patrick Harris... I was convinced she was a he, as we're most people on here, but nope definitely a girlie. She was similar in colour to your Muffin and it seems that the light chicks tend to feather in quite dark from everything I've read...
Hi everyone, not sure how I've missed this thread until now.
I'm on the Morn Pen in Vic and have a small backyard flock of 5 hens and 3 (hopefully) pullets.
We've got a mixture of breeds, including 2 x Welsummers, 1 x White Orp, 1 x Silver Laced Wynadotte, 1 x Araucana, 1 X RIR, 1 x Silver...
Just thought I'd share a pic of my Aussie Welsummer, Beatrice (that's our other Wellie, Dot in the background).
She's just moulted so is looking lovely in a new set of feathers.
She's super smart and I joke that we're sworn enemies.... I have never had a hen that held a grudge like Beatrice!
I had a light Sussex (Charlie) and at 16 weeks everyone and their dog on here were telling me she were a he. If you wanted to look back through my posts a user posted pics of their roos around the same age and there was no mistaking mine was a Charlotte not a Charles! They're a very large breed...
Thanks for your opinion! Definite on age as I collected them as day old's straight out of the 'bator.
The feathering had me wondering but I'm in Aus and it's the start of Autumn here and all our other ladies are molting, so I thought that might have something to do with it?
Hi there,
I have 1 Barnevelder chick who is 9.5 weeks old. I hope it's ok for me to post here, but I thought I'd ask the experts: is Neil Patrick Harris a roo?
Just wondering if there were any other white orp owners out there? My 6 year old wanted to buy a hen with his own money and chose Hattie the white orp. We've never had orps before and Hattie sure is a weird one... She follows you around almost like she wants to be petted but if you try, she...
I know that the hamburg had tail feathers early, I've posted lots of pics of them in various threads if you wanted to check. The Barnie left was the lighter of the two, and honestly I don't now which RIR was which in the begining haha.