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It will be good to see your new pix, Staceymw. By now you should be seeing a difference in the hackles and tail feathers. The cockerels will be darker and almost black in the tail feathers. They will also glisten almost "iridescent." I have nine new 2 1/2 week olds that were hatched by a broody...

Both hens and roosters have combs and waddles, StaceyMW. The shape of the combs leads me to think they are hens, because a mature rooster's comb will grow backward (toward the tail) from where it leaves the head so that you have a portion of comb that has sky between it and the head of the roo...

I'm a little late to this thread. It seems the last msg was posted last summer. My last batch of straight run RIRs began to exhibit some interesting characteristics after about 4 to 4 1/2 weeks. There were fundamentally two groups (which made me think secondary sexual characteristics): Group...