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Probably. Male sapphire gems are barred, so since that is a barred blue bird out of a Sapphire Gem bin, I think it's safe to say it's a cockerel.

The sex-linking produces barred males and solid females. It isn't made with them. The parent stock are solid males and barred females

If they are Prairie Bluebell Eggers then they are cockerels. That is a sex-linked cross with barred males and solid females. I can't tell you if that is actually what they are though, but the color looks about right.

They're all being made into soup if there isn't a lot of meat on em. If there is, they'll be portioned out into quarters and breasts and used in crock pot meals. No matter the age, they will be cooked long and slow.

I might have to process them closer to 10 weeks than 16. I've butchered 16 wk old cockerels before and they've already entered their gangly teenage phase -- all growth spurt and no meat. I'll try a batch at 12 weeks and 20 weeks and see how it goes.

What do you consider early and young?

Hey guys, thank you for replying! @U_Stormcrow: My All-Flock feed is 18%. The meat bird feed is usually 22-24%, but game bird feed where I am runs to about 30%. I have not compared prices between game bird feed and the previously mentioned feeds. My Ams are true Ams, not mixes (I do have EEs...

I have a flock of dual purpose chickens (Ameraucanas, Orpingtons, and Marans) that I can cross to produce sex links. Easy enough to sell the pullets, and I keep the cocks for table. However, I've just been feeding them regular chick feed and then all-flock feed from about 12 weeks on. I want to...

I love my Orpington, Harold, although his lieutenant, Obi Wan, who is a true black Ameraucana, is a close second. I had a pool of about 18 cockerels to choose from, and those two were the only ones to pass the Not an Asshole test. They're calm, respectful, alert, attentive to the hens, and they...

True Ameraucanas have two copies of the blue egg gene. EEs can have 1, 2, or none. If he is a true Ameraucana and your SGEs lay green eggs, then crossing them with him should give you mostly pullets that lay blue eggs and some that lay green eggs. If you get pullets that lay brown or tan eggs...

I'd brood them outside and away from the house, if at all possible, to keep fecal dust and dander down in your home. I wear muck boots into the coop that don't come inside. All I can suggest in addition to washing your hands is wearing a mask, and a mask AND goggles when you clean the coop.

Y'all. I have a PLAN. A perfectly good breeding plan that involves waiting until February to implement it and I come here and it's just whole forums of chicks! And hatching eggs! Remind me that I don't want to brood babies in winter, that I need a whole month to get the right roo x hen combo...

So 50% confirmed cockerels for the first hatch, and a little less than that for the second. That's entirely normal. Each individual egg has a 50/50 shot of being male or female and sometimes you just get weird RNG. My last batch of 19 had 15 cockerels. The batch before that had 8/18. Sometimes...

It's a 50/50 shot per egg, not per clutch. Your hen flipped tails three out of four times! Not unheard of, just bad luck. My last batch of 19 had FIFTEEN cockerels. I wanted to cry.

Sussex don't lay dark brown eggs, they lay light tan eggs. That's a rooster. He's probably just very slow to mature. Some of the heritage dual purpose breeds can take a while. If you have another, older rooster than he probably isn't crowing because he's not allowed to. And you probably don't...

I'd say they're EE mixes, going by the pea-ish combs and lack of wattles.

I'm working on mauve easter eggers. I have a chocolate laced silver orpington rooster and 3 blue Ameraucana pullets I'll be separating out come spring. I also have some mottled splash Icelandics I might throw in with them and see what happens. The Icies were an experiment that didn't work out...

Yes, my coop is made of refrigeration truck panels -- it's very insulated. I only mention the windchill because when it's -40 outside it's still well below zero inside the coop, even if it isn't drafty or damp. Their waterer is like a bell waterer, where it's filled in the top and has a flat...

I live in Iowa and the windchill during winter can hit -40°. My Orpington rooster is molting and one of the pin feathers on his neck must've broken, because the hens plucked him naked and now he has a mullet. I'm worried about the exposed skin now that we are heading into the colder months and...

I don't see any male traits on that chicken. I'd say pullet, but if it is then it definitely isn't a sex link.