Yeah, the consensus is all the Orpingtons are boys. I knew my Polish were. I am praying my Amberlinks are hens, but they are 2nd gen, so I'm not sure the auto sexing would still work??
I will try to rehome them. At the time, I had a day-old polish chick I was trying to find friends for. Because of that, I wasn't really worried about the gender. My bad luck, all all of the Orpingtons ended up being boys. 😭
Awww, nuts, Nuthatched! 😭🤣
They were a week old when I got them. So I don't think she did; just bad luck. I've never raised chicks before only had chickens that were off heat minimum, most at least a couple of months old. I'd heard that Orpingtons were hard to sex, but they were looking very...
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I have 2 BYM Polish roosters, 2 golden comets, 2 EE, 1 black sex link and a Rhode Island Blue that are OG. In late Aug my fave and only Polish hen disappeared, so we tried hatching a few of her eggs. One hatched but was lonely, so I found 3 Orpingtons and 2 Amberlink chicks within a few days...
Help pls. I have 2 adult polish roosters already with a small flock of 6 adult hens (I know this isn't ideal; they get along pretty well and I'm trying to add more). I bought 5 baby chicks due to hatching a single polish (who promptly passed the day after I acquired the 5 😭). They were sold to...