I hope you are right Cindiloohoo! I hadn't seen them for 2 days (i was away over weekend) and I was amazed at how different they looked when I got home!!! They grew soo much in such a short time!
NEW PICS!
Chicks are 8 weeks old as of today. Here are some new pics!
Pics 1 and 2- The chick I thought may have been a rooster..... not sure what I think now!!!!
Pic 3 - The back of both birds.... the pullet is on the left, the suspect is on the right
Pics 4 & 5- The pullet...
updated pix! Chicks are 6 wks old.
this is the hen:
this is the 'suspects' head:
this is the 'suspects' feathers... I tried to get pix of where any saddle feather would be growing (as suggested by SloCrevs).. this chick is only just starting to feather out back there.. had been pecked a bit...
I got them from a local feed / bird store called 'Ivorsons' that sells a hell of a lot of chooks. Never purchased anything from there before, just happened to need horse feed on a sunday afternoon and stumbled across them then!
well supposably these are ISA browns, sex-links and female... but 'who knows' whats these birds actually are!.....
and yes ISA browns are, well are truly meant to be sex-linked.. (white hen X brown rooster of certain breeds) but there are differing opinions on the matter nowdays.....
hi!
I had to become a member... to finally get the byc expert opinion on whether my 5 week old chick (turn 6 weeks on Tuesday) is a rooster!!
I don't know much about chickens, but I am beginning to get paranoid that one of my 'girls' is actually a 'boy'.... I don't think a rooster would go...