➡I accidentally bought Balut eggs: 2 live ducks! Now a Chat Thread!

[Tesumph]

The only thing I hate worse than internet problems (LOL)
is having people show up uninvited.
Having to entertain while I am trying to get my BYC on is nuts.

Preach woman.
Can I have some sympathy for dealing with both all week?

Have you seen this...

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You can tell whether chicks are male or female when they hatch, e.g. Gold Tops and Blacktails. Welsummers are not sex-linked or auto-sexing but they can be sexed at day old. Males have a stripe across the eyes but it is less well defined than the females.

This seemed to be the case with EEs too - the female had a sharper, more defined eye-stripe and the male more blurry. So i think that little guy stretching his neck could be a cockrel.

Sigh.
So if he’s a cockerel, and one of my buff orps is a packing peanut that I’m assuming is a cockerel.. 6 hens, max?
SIIIIGH.

 

[redranger209]

Who are you asking?
If you use the QUOTE button it makes things clearer.

Sorry, I get lazy and don’t quote when my post is right after the person I’m asking.

 

[biophiliac]

Male ee above, female below(named Nefertiti for the eye-liner)

 

[Kiki]

I disagree.
I think this is a female.
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It's the yellow EE that I think is going to be a boy.

@redranger209 I think this is a female because her eye stripes are defined enough.

 

[Kiki]

Male ee above, female below(named Nefertiti for the eye-liner)

Do you have a photo of his eyes?

 

[redranger209]

I think that rule is only with wellsummers, not all chipmunks.

 

[biophiliac]

Do you have a photo of his eyes?

Sorry, no but the dark line around his eyes was very uneven/blurry in comparison as well as the chipmuck stripes were less defined.

 

[Kiki]

I think that rule is only with wellsummers, not all chipmunks.

I don't believe all rules.

 

[Kiki]

The one rule I do believe is ...
Yellow hatched EE turn into roosters. (From Ideal)

 

[redranger209]

The one rule I do believe is ...
Yellow hatched EE turn into roosters. (From Ideal)