Does anyone else have bearded white polish? I have one really nice quality hen, and I never seem to see them anywhere! They really are beautiful birds...
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I can sex my Polish with >90% accuracy by crest shape at hatching. I do pretty well with silkies too- but lose accuracy once they're over a few days old. Rob and I are working on statistics for a science fair project on sexing chicks.
WOW!!! Do you think you could tell us how/ is it...
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Well, if you're going to try to breed BCW's my hat's off to you, particularly if you want to wind up with something exhibition quality. There's a lot of work to do there. Those and the tolbunts need people working in their corner who aren't afraid to hatch a lot of chicks to get...
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Polish are not the best of egg layers & I would recomend them for a beginer.
They are high matinece fowl, & require dry areas, so they will be fine if the TX. heat, but do very poorly when it rains. they are very tolerant of the cold, so that is a plus in TX since our weather is so...
My polish hens can be noisy. Hope doesn't really make that much noise unless she's laying an egg....then she is. Iggy is VERY vocal....she clucks a lot and is also super loud when something is bothering her or she's laying an egg. I guess it depends......