12 week production reds

[BantamLover21]

All pullets!

 

[bluebirdnanny]

Yes production reds are very good layers. That is what they were bred for. Hence the name 'production'.

Mine only went sporadic and then stopped when the rooster came...... stress on two hens. Though I thought they stopped.... one was hiding them UNDER the nest boxes of the "commercial little coop" which I put on the platform for the new coop I am building around it. Lower walls framed with osb
She hid seven eggs under there!!! So my week of nothing laid wasn't a nothing!

Until rooster came I had 1-2 (mostly two) from two hens. Ever since Early Feb. when I got the 3 girls. Lost one after trip downstate... let them out for only an hour before dark when we got home and she freaked when we put them in for night. Next morning gone. Think was heart from panic attack... But point was that until I lost her I was getting an egg every day from all three girls!!!! Once every couple of weeks one would take the day off but always 2-3 daily even in February. So yes VERY good layers.

 

[tatertot]

I have 3...24 seeker rir pullets...one is laying...their faces seemed more pink and their waddles and comb just got real big and red real fast...the last two pictures look rooish but I'm no expert...so they may all be pullets

 

[Delight30]

Thinking I have 2 cockerels and 3 pullets, but not sure they are about 13 wks old.

 

[BantamLover21]

Thinking I have 2 cockerels and 3 pullets, but not sure they are about 13 wks old.

I think you're right. But a side-profile photo of each individual bird would help.

 

[Delight30]

Thank you, will see what I can do. I have an EE roo 23 wks old in with my other girls.... so trying to figure out which birds I can move into the big house and which ones need to stay where they are.

 

[Delight30]

I think you're right. But a side-profile photo of each individual bird would help.

Best I could do.... hope this helps.

 

[BantamLover21]

Best I could do.... hope this helps.

Going by feathers (pointed/shiny=male, rounded, dull = female) and maturity (redder comb/wattles and less feathered in=characteristics of male birds), I remain with my guess of two cockerels and three pullets.

 

[Wyandottes7]

Best I could do.... hope this helps.

None of them really look like roosters. Still, judging by comb size and color, you may have three pullets and two cockerels. Its just as likely that you have five pullets and no cockerels, as none of them look like definite cockerels.

 

[Delight30]

None of them really look like roosters. Still, judging by comb size and color, you may have three pullets and two cockerels. Its just as likely that you have five pullets and no cockerels, as none of them look like definite cockerels.

Going by feathers (pointed/shiny=male, rounded, dull = female) and maturity (redder comb/wattles and less feathered in=characteristics of male birds), I remain with my guess of two cockerels and three pullets.

Thanks for your help.....