2018 Newbie Chat!

[CannedMonster]

@Chickassan
What about my Skye?
I’m suspecting she may be a he because the comb turned pink at 5 weeks and Taka’s comb didn’t.

Can you tell with EE at 7 weeks?
These are supposed to be sexed females I ordered from Meyer.
One Australorp has turned out to be a cockerel.

She’s younger in this photo and this is when I noticed the comb pinking up.

 

[llombardo]

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Hey, everytime I come in here I tell you something weird. Last time I told you that you have a faverolle. Well this time i'm telling you that you have an EE or OE and i'm sooo sorry but I got to tell you....he's a boy.

Are you talking to me? This is a boy? I can not have another boy---take it back...lol

 

[Chickassan]

@Chickassan
What about my Skye?
I’m suspecting she may be a he because the comb turned pink at 5 weeks and Taka’s comb didn’t.

Can you tell with EE at 7 weeks?
These are supposed to be sexed females I ordered from Meyer.
One Australorp has turned out to be a cockerel.

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She’s younger in this photo and this is when I noticed the comb pinking up.
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So far Skye looks like a pullet but a few more weeks will help be sure.

Are you talking to me? This is a boy?

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Yeah i'm pretty sure that is a boy. That red is super red and i'm seeing some suspicious pointy feathers. I can't go by feather coloration on that one since i'm not used to that pattern at all. Hopefully i'm wrong and whatever they put in the mix is just making the bird appear male.

 

[llombardo]

this picture is from about a month ago--so 16 weeks or so--I assumed the comb was getting redder because she was getting closer to laying and I am pretty sure the boy has tried mating with this one

 

[CannedMonster]

Are you talking to me? This is a boy? I can not have another boy---take it back...lol

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I don’t think she’s a roo llombardo.
I zoomed in on her saddle feathers and none of them are the skinny pointed ones males have.
And at 19 weeks old there would be some by now.
You already have two cockerels.
Look at their saddle feathers.
She doesn’t have those.

 

[llombardo]

I don’t think she’s a roo llombardo.
I zoomed in on her saddle feathers and none of them are the skinny pointed ones males have.
And at 19 weeks old there would be some by now.
You already have two cockerels.
Look at their saddle feathers.
She doesn’t have those.

I'm in freak out mode here. I was positive she was a girl. I guess it would help if I knew the breed. I got to go observe this one. I've had enough surprises.

 

[llombardo]

A cute story from today...I was cleaning the coop and I feel a very faint peck and I look to see who and see this..She is such a sweetie. Follows me around and loves to be pet.

 

[Chickassan]

I hope i'm wrong. I had one I SWORE was a girl other roo mated it and it hung around with the pullets then it's skinny butt grew as big as the roo quickly and it started to crow. I could have sexed mine with wing patch colors but I didn't know that back then.He didn't get noticable saddle feathers until maybe nearly 5 months. In the baby photos he is the little dark one, the giant red one was the rooster I knew I had.

 

[llombardo]

I went over to the breed and gender section.they are positive it's a girl based on the pattern. They also say EE

 

[CannedMonster]

I'm in freak out mode here. I was positive she was a girl. I guess it would help if I knew the breed. I got to go observe this one. I've had enough surprises.

She’s an EE or an OE.