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We Spitz breeders have worked for years to get the Polish poofy crest out of the Spitz genes. I used to raise Gold Brabanters, and I worked on the same issue. It would be better to keep the Polish out of the equation and just work with Spitz/Brabanter cross to produce a nice chamois Brabanter.

It is a pullet... You can sex Spitz around six weeks. Wattles on the males start to show up about then, as do their personalities.

Blue, I have raised both Brabanters and Spitzhaubens and love them both. Each seem to have mysterious deaths, but anything I could diagnosis externally was fixable. Fowll pox is treatable if you keep on top of it. Put a drying agent like iodine or calomine lotion on each of the sores with a...

Yea! I am joining, even if I still only have two Brabanters left-my pets.

They should start "showing" pretty soon. The wattles will come first on the cockerels. Good luck...

Adorable ! The wattles, then redness in the comb are my first indications of who the guys are.

I wish I had kept both now!

I sold my gold Brabanter flock last year. I am pleased with the culling I did to get good crests before I sold them. They were such delightful birds, but I wanted to spend more time on my Spitzhaubens.

Am so sorry about your hen. Wish I could help, but you are a little too far away from me.

I like him!

He is a very unusual looking, but pretty bird. The beard could indicate a Brabanter, but the comb is neither Brabanter nor Spitzhauben. He may be crossed with a silver spangled Hamburg, instead of Spitzhauben.

Good hatch!

Congrats!

DeAnna, Since you only have one hen, I would only keep one roo with her for breeding. Nod sounds like a pet, and you could keep him with your other birds. You will get more hatching eggs eventually, and can pick again.

Looks like a guy to me...

The 2nd #1 is the best. The wider spaced comb will do well as he gets older, and his wattles are better. However, for breeding, the wattles probably won't be a factor. I would keep both of the #1's.

Quote: What did the vet say that confirmed your flock has MG? Have they been tested for MG/MS? MG/MS is a LOT more common than LLV and is not a death sentence for your flock. A simple blood test can confirm the diagnosis. I have had a few hundred birds come and go in my flock over the...

Sweet !

I would say cockerel now...

Looks like a lady to me, and a very nice one at that!