Thanks everyone. We'd been trying to kid ourselves that they were all pullets as they didn't have the obvious combs and wattles that our pekin cockerels had. Thanks for the confirmation that we needed. Now to find new homes for the boys!
Appreciate your efforts on identifying the breeds too...
Hi Everyone,
My wife and I started keeping chickens about 10 years ago. We had two Barnevelder hens that lived to the ripe old age of 9 before we went on holiday and the fox got to them!
We, and our 6 year old daughter Wren, got 12 eggs from a local farmer a few months ago and managed to hatch...
Hi All,
We hatched 9 eggs on 27th May which we were told by the farmer were Pekin Bantams. One of them sadly didn't make it past week 2 and the two that we recently identified as clearly being cocks have gone to a new home.
Of the 6 remaining birds that are now 14 weeks old it seems reasonably...