5 week olds....girls or boys? update!

[kokotg]

Bobbie Ann was actually an Ameraucana/Easter Egger (from Ideal). As far as we can tell, Zora's a pullet...her comb did look redder than the others early on, but it's not really growing much, and she hasn't gotten the pointy tail feathers like Bobbie got. Both of yours look pretty girly to me, but I'm not really the person to ask...actually, Eudora does look kind of like Bobbie Ann...the neck feathers are really similar. Well, fingers crossed for you! (btw, we had a Eudora, too, at first...she died the second night she was here, though

...I had a southern writer theme going on, except for the ones the kids named, but now we only have Flannery and Zora left out of those).

 

[rubysmom]

Thanks a bunch.
We actually got Eudoras name from a book about the south too!! The Auroura County Allstars it was called. It was a kids book and it was great. I read it aloud with my daughter. So sorry yours didn't make it

I appreciate the update.
I'm still keepin the faith on my SLW
Have a great night.
Claudia

 

[SeaChick]

OOOh, oooh!!!! Our boat is named Zora after our dear-departed Siamese cat (who was actually "Zorra" but we were sailing to Latin American countries and we heard that "zorra" is a derogative -"wh*re"- in many of the places we were going, so we dropped one "r"...)!!! What an unusual name!!!!

www.sailzora.com

 

[SeaChick]

Also, can I ask you when Bobbi's hackle/neck feathers started looking pointy???

Our favorite (of course!) little 5-week-old EE chick's comb is wider than the other 2 EEs we have.... not pink, just significantly wider, and I'm worried she's a he. We're in the suburbs too; no roos allowed. I would like to figure it out sooner rather than later because my DD is getting more attached to her every day. Hackle feathers are coming in, but are not pointy at all.

Also, she started feathering in early: did Bobbi feather later than the girls or not? I will post pics in another thread...

Thanks!
Stacey

 

[kokotg]

I'm trying to remember when I noticed pointiness....definitely not at 5 weeks, because I remember looking and deciding it wasn't worth posting a tail feather picture because there wasn't much to see. And definitely before 3 months. I have a picture of him a week before he turned 3 months and you can see the pointy feathers and the neck thing very, very clearly. From what I remember, he started feathering in a bit earlier than the others, but not dramatically so. He was very different personality-wise from the start, too. He was the one running all over the brooder box, stepping on the other chicks as soon as they got home.