I'm sure there are various answers, but mine hatched February 23 and all started right before the middle of July, just before the five month mark. I have a feeling those getting ready to start now might be a little older because the days are getting shorter.
In the rooster there are usually golden (russet? tannish?) pathes on the wing and on the heads of both sexes, the silver duckwing has a white head while the golden has a creamy or darker head, not white.
Adorable rooster. I love the OEGB. We lost our little silver duckwing rooster so I hatched some of his eggs and got three little spitting images of him.Our big rooster crows and we hear these little squeaky rendition echoes. Now bantam chicken math has kicked in.
I have eggs in the incubator. All the parents are silver duckwings. Shouldn't the babies be all SD? Or if they carry something else could that pop out?
I went out this morning and looked at my little hens and they are all definitely all silver duckwings as is the rooster. Does this mean that all progeny will be silver duckwings?
It's hard to tell colors from pictures but the gold and silver duckwing hens look very similar. I've been told mine are silver duckwing and they do have very pale legs. And the girls look like your picture, but not far off the other. Whatever, they are adorable and cute little birds. (I've...
I'm not sure on the colors at all, but am going by what more experienced people told me about my OEGB's. Gold duckwing on the roo iin the second picture. And could the little hen on the right in the two hen picture be the hen version of silver duckwing? My hens have a silvery or greyish sheen...
I have five bantams, three are SDW hens hatched this February 23, and two started laying this past weekend which made them 4.5 months The eggs are so tiny. Love the old English and the little rooster is an absolute hoot. Absolutely nothing phases him.