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The crest size isn't any indication of the gender, or at least it hasn't been with my brabanters. My male actually has a rather small crest compared to some of my girls. A better indicator of gender is the comb. I noticed that my male's comb started growing and turning red at around 7/8...
I was wondering....has anyone else experienced hens that crow? I have a pretty, young bird that lays beautiful white teardrop eggs on a regular basis. Then out of no where she spent the day crowing! I thought this was odd, especially since my friend who has a a young Brabanter as well, reported...
Here are a few pictures of my Brabanters. The pullet is 9 months old, great crest...no beard and my new chicks are just the way everyone has been describing. Beards/no crest....crest/no beard. Great personality either way!!
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Don't mix Spitz hatching eggs with other breeds' eggs because of LLV. I am also careful not to give raw Spitz eggs to any other breeds.
I am new to both the Brabanter and the Spitz, however, I have just hatched both. Actually the Spitz are due to hatch on Friday. I had no...