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    4 month old bantam mottled Cochins - sexes?

    These three youngsters don't seem to be in any hurry to let me know what they are for sure. It doesn't help that I'm not very good with the really fluffy birds. My guesses: #1 - pullet #2 - cockerel #3 - yeah, not real sure about #3.
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    8 week old bantam buff Brahmas - sexes?

    I have 9 birds, only one of which is clearly identifiable as a rooster. The other 8 look like pullets. If I had ordered them sexed as pullets I'd be quite happy with this sex distribution - just one boy fooled the sexers at the hatchery. However, these were purchased as straight-run and I find...
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    6 week old bantam Cochins - pullets vs cockerels

    The photo of the three birds in a cage I’m relatively confident are cockerels. The two birds to a cage are the question marks.
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    Mille Fleur ?? and ??

    These chicks are three weeks old. I ordered a grab bag of feather-legged bantams so that I have some clean Silkies and Cochins to raise Olive Eggers next year. I'm thinking I have four MF D'Uccles, in the first two photographs. Not sure about the bird on the right in the third photograph and in...
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    How in the heck do you sex a frizzle?

    These guys are just 3 weeks old, and there certainly aren't any normal feather characteristics to go on, but I'm thinking the reds have to be girls and the blacks boys. Are you all comfortable with sexing by the comb at this age?
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    10 week old Silver Laced Wyandottes - gender?

    Wyandottes are always perplexing to me, these are updated pictures from a few weeks ago. First two pictures are SLW candidate number 1, then SLW candidate number 2.
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    How quickly do Silkies mature?

    I'm thinking of getting some Silkies to hatch out eggs from my Ameraucanas. I'd like to know when I should expect Silkies to become broody.
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    7 week old Wyandottes, part 2

    A couple more, different from the bird in the first post. one in the first post.
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    7 week old Wyandottes - part one

    Male? The last photograph is a little more for fun...chillin' like villians...
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    How many eggs can you fit under a Silkie?

    I'm looking to hatch out a relatively small number of eggs (less than 70) next spring and summer. I don't want to invest in a good brooder for such a small number of eggs and I learned my lesson this year about the cheaper brooders. Against my better judgement I tried one out, but stopped the...
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    When should I start collecting hatching eggs from pullets?

    I have a group of pullets that will be 5 months old at the end of March (no eggs yet). I would like to hatch some chicks this summer. I know I need to wait until I have eggs of uniform shape and size. We sell eggs to my husband's colleagues, so it won't be difficult to get reports on the yolks...
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    11 week old Easter Eggers, #3 of 3, the golden

    Pullet or cockerel?
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    11 week old Easter Eggers #2 of 3, the white

    Cockerel?
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    11 week old Easter Eggers - #1 of 3, the greybeard

    Cockerel?
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    Mottled Orpington again - one week later - pullet?

    8 weeks old now. The bottom two pictures are hatchmates.
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    7 week old mottled Orpingtons 2 cockerels, 2 pullets, and?

    The one I have my doubts about is at the foreground of all but the last photograph.
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    12 week old pullets - time to limit feed?

    I have a group of 12 week old pullets that includes production reds, Easter Eggers, partridge rocks and buff Orpingtons. We joke that you wouldn't want to fall down and hit your head in their pen - they'd eat you alive. Knowing that I don't want them going in to lay heavy, when should I start...
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    Partridge rock - roo or pullet?

    The first is the suspected roo, the next is another PR from the same shipment. 11 weeks old.
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    NH red roo 11 weeks old - checking

    Pretty sure it's a cockerel, wanting to check though. I have to make a little space and the boys need to go, but I certainly don't want to make a mistake.
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    Sexing EEs, part 4, one last time

    Ok, one last chick. The friends that are interested in them have small kids, I don't want to send them home with roos the kids might get attached to.
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