All Grown Up Now ~ 41 Weeks Old~ New Pics Post 223(01/15/12)~

[halo]

Oh arent those pictures darling. Caption under the first picture...

You go first...

I aint going, YOU go...

Not me, YOU go...

Nuh uh, you first...

 

[speckledhen]

That's perfect!

 

[speckledhen]

Adding some BR chick pics from today. One of two BRs looks very tiny-was going to change the leg bands to the larger size today since they are about 3 weeks old, but this one's original chickie-band was still loose. You'll see what I mean on the baby with the pink band. You can barely even see that it has a comb. Uh, oh, are we going to mention the "D" word? (that would be dwarf

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In this pic, the tiny BR is next to a D'Anver bantam, so you can tell it's way smaller than the other BRs, for sure!

BLRW cockerel, I think the only male of the three BLRWs.

 

[PepsNick]

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What?? The parrot beak! The pasty butt! THE SIZE! NO! Would it be that kind that doesn't have the disorders and all? But it has a parrot beak...

 

[speckledhen]

I didn't really notice anything wrong with its beak, Nick, but I'll check tomorrow closer. It's probably just a runt, not a dwarf.

 

[kathyinmo]

Well, Cyn, now you know me ....... It sure would not surprise me one bit if that were a dwarf. I specialize in them, ya know.

Is it male or female?

 

[speckledhen]

Is it male or female?

Are you kidding me, Kathy? I can't tell with this bunch! LOL. The head spots don't match the legs don't match the barring...

I do think the one in the first pic with it, the other I got from you, is male, but the operative word is "think".​

 

[kathyinmo]

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Are you kidding me, Kathy? I can't tell with this bunch! LOL. The head spots don't match the legs don't match the barring...

I do think the one in the first pic with it, the other I got from you, is male, but the operative word is "think".

Isn't that just crazy?

Nobody believes me when I tell them they are getting, "straight run," no sexing!

 

[speckledhen]

Well, I believe you! One has a tiny, almost imperceptible spot on the head, but no color on the legs at all. Or you'll have a huge, blurry spot, but dark leg fronts. It's just not easy to sex this line at all. Now, I've never had too many cockerels with lots of dark on the leg fronts, but I've had a few with some, for sure. This is a wait and see proposition! Even William told me that he sometimes has trouble sexing them till they are a few weeks old--and William has been raising chickens for over 50 years. I do consider him an expert. With hatchery stock or my generations-removed-from-hatchery stock, I am rarely wrong with sexing, but I give up on this bunch!

 

[speckledhen]

Ok, halo, do you think this is a pure Ameraucana? It's definitely a cockerel, I'd say, from the wide comb (which weirdly, has fuzz all over it) which isn't raised, but extremely wide, and the hackle color, which is very goldish, much like Levi had. All four first pics are this same guy:

Here is the Olive Egger:

Another EE kid, or is it an Ameraucana? Legs are dark: