I keep posting on here, and i really appreciate all your help. I'm here again, this time questioning my Lemon Blues. I ordered 2 Lemon Blue OEGBs, and they are 6 weeks old. I have another chick that is a Blue Birchen, and it already has silver on the neck. I think that these Lemon's should be...
I ordered 2 Golden Neck OEGB chicks. 1 is a cockerel, and 1 is a pullet. The cockerel is really dark, with gold all over, kind of what i would expect for a Golden Neck. The pullet is mostly white, with just a bit of gold on the neck and head. I just wondered what you thought....
The Cockerel...
Yeah, if you do it, only nip the tips. I once tried cutting off maybe half of it, and that was a bad idea. It ended up hurting the rooster because there's blood that flows in it and i got too far up.
Yes. Silkies are slow developing, that is why it's best to wait. The single comb is just a genetic fluke that happens a lot at hatcheries. You could try and sex silkies at a young age, and say they were females, because they didn't show any male traits, but then when they grow older, and say it...
Yes, usually the sexing guarantee is 80-90%.
Usually you hear most people just calling male birds roosters, but the correct terms are:
Cockerel = Male bird under a year old
Pullet = Female bird under a year old
Rooster = Male bird over a year old
Hen = Female bird over a year old
Yes, that can happen. I precisely remember a thread on here where they either got a chick from a hatchery or a feed store and it was colored just like a female RSL, but it had male feathering.
It is frustrating. I've ordered from Ideal twice before, and the only problem I've had was a sexing fluke once, which could happen anytime. I've never had them mix them up like that. But, I suppose a lot of those OEGB colors look the same when they are young, so maybe if they had an...