I currently have 8 black Australorp chicks that will be 9 weeks old tomorrow. I hatched them myself and received the eggs through a breeder. That being said, obviously the eggs came from various hen and rooster combinations which has made it really difficult to determine the gender of a couple...
Okay I took some pictures of my three remaining polish (all confirmed Roos went to good homes). Over three weeks ago, I swear I heard one of these little friends crow, but oddly, it has not happened since? No one has the shooter feathers in the crest like all the other had or the ‘shiny’...
@BookWormDenise I am still waiting on two of them. I want to say that they are both Roos and maybe just late bloomers? I will have to take pictures today or tomorrow if the remaining three (1/3 I am confident is a pullet).
@BastyPutt I tried spraying their crest the other day but I didn’t see any difference. Should I be misting those feathers (that’s what I did, but maybe didn’t mist them enough?) or spraying them? I also found new a home for numbers 2, 3, and 6 since those were more than likely cockerels.
I currently have 8 polish chicks that turned 8 weeks old this week. I have 4 silver laced and 4 golden laced. These are my first polish & knew I needed to wait until at least 8 weeks to determine gender. I am still uncertain about most of them. I took pictures of them and numbered them 1-8. I...
This is one of our Silver Laced Polish chicks. He is 6.5 weeks old and is the most dominant of all 8 of my polish (4 silver laced and 4 golden laced). He will challenge one of my golden laced regularly (which makes me think that one might be a roo too. They both have similar crests. Although, I...