Thank you, I suspected she isn't a welsummer when I was looking up photos of chicks to try and figure out her gender - they all had their patterns from a young age. I guess I'll just have to wait and see what she looks like when she is older. I just got some 4 week old silver laced wyandottes...
Aww she is beautiful, I love all the variations in the markings on the welsummers and with their lovely dark eggs you can tell who laid those eggs. I've just got home with two silver laced wyandottes and a platinum sussex about 4 weeks old, hopefully one of the wyandottes are female and the guy...
Thanks everyone :)
CuzChickens I think by now I have read through her whole website! I'll have to see if I can find her books here. The barnevelder and welsummer were the two chickens I had to have, now I'm just waiting for the welsummer to get all the beautiful markings, oh and of course some...
Hi, my chicks are about 10 weeks old and I'm hoping you can please confirm their genders? I bought them as sexed chicks at about 1 week old and the hatchery I got them from thinks they all look female, I'm sure the plymouth is male and I suspect the 3rd of my crossbred blacks is a male as well -...
Thanks sunflour, it was tough losing that one even after reading so much about getting extra chicks in case of roos and because chicks are fragile. It was the only one I had named too - hence why none of them are getting names until I'm sure of their gender!
Thanks redsoxs, I found that thread...
Hi, I'm Krystal from Queensland, Australia. I started researching keeping chooks as pets back in April when I babysat my mum's chooks for 2 months while they went on holiday. After "chick sitting" my husband finally agreed to letting me get my own little flock! Needless to say I have been...