Ameraucana thread for posting pictures and discussing our birds

[Caitlin_VT]

I got new pics of my one little flufflball we were unsure of the sex. Most feel it's a pullet.

It's 9wks, so basically 2mths.

Looks more like a cockerel to me.

 

[Caitlin_VT]

jaje

I'll get more pictures tomorrow.

Looks like quite a few cockerels to me

. I also am having a hard time sexing my Lavenders, which are 16 weeks old. Some are so easy to distinguish, others are totally ambiguous!

 

[hotlipshens]

Goingquakers - 9 weeks is still young. The nice thing about blues is that cockerals darken were pullets do not - keep watching for the wings to either darker or not - good luck!

 

[jajeanpierre]

I'll get more pictures tomorrow.

I don't think these pictures say anything except ugly. I pulled the five out that are not obviously cockerels and looked them over very carefully and photographed them in a little show pen. They were really upset in the pen, crouching down and not being at all photogenic. I've included pictures of the five I hope

are pullets.

None of these birds have particularly big feet or legs although the Splash #1 is probably the biggest bird of the bunch. "She" is five days younger than the rest.

I went through their feathers and don't see the tell-tale pointy feathers of a cockerel coming in. Their new feathers seem to be rounded, but who knows.

I've kept their reference numbers the same as the pictures posted yesterday. Splash #1 is 15 weeks tomorrow. All the other birds are 16 weeks on Saturday.

Splash #1:






Splash #2





Chick #3:

 

[dstokely]

I don't think these pictures say anything except ugly. I pulled the five out that are not obviously cockerels and looked them over very carefully and photographed them in a little show pen. They were really upset in the pen, crouching down and not being at all photogenic. I've included pictures of the five I hope

are pullets.

None of these birds have particularly big feet or legs although the Splash #1 is probably the biggest bird of the bunch. "She" is five days younger than the rest.

I went through their feathers and don't see the tell-tale pointy feathers of a cockerel coming in. Their new feathers seem to be rounded, but who knows.

I've kept their reference numbers the same as the pictures posted yesterday. Splash #1 is 15 weeks tomorrow. All the other birds are 16 weeks on Saturday.

Splash #1:






Splash #2





Chick #3:

My vote is all pullets.

 

[aoxa]

@aoxa They are all lovely, but especially Dovely!

Thank you!

 

[jajeanpierre]

My vote is all pullets.

You are my new BFF!

These are my only splash that might be pullets. Paul Smith didn't have the four splash I ordered this spring, so I took a couple extra blacks instead. One of those two Paul Smith splash turned out to be a cockerel and the other was a really pretty pullet that just died one day for no apparent reason. (It had been a hot day and I had been out all day and didn't check on them to make sure no one was in trouble.) The splash cockerel likely has a date with the freezer this weekend if I can grow a spine. This group of cockerels are just so rude with the hens--I have to thin out their ranks asap.

 

[hotlipshens]

They all look like pullets to me too - congrats! Surprised your Smith cockerals aren't as sweet and mellow as mine - I love them all and think I've sold my extras to other am fanciers.

 

[dstokely]

You are my new BFF!

These are my only splash that might be pullets. Paul Smith didn't have the four splash I ordered this spring, so I took a couple extra blacks instead. One of those two Paul Smith splash turned out to be a cockerel and the other was a really pretty pullet that just died one day for no apparent reason. (It had been a hot day and I had been out all day and didn't check on them to make sure no one was in trouble.) The splash cockerel likely has a date with the freezer this weekend if I can grow a spine. This group of cockerels are just so rude with the hens--I have to thin out their ranks asap.

Good luck. I do not have a spine for that job. I have an extra blue that I am getting ready to re-home. He is not the prettiest and he is beginning to get pretty rude. The other two blues and the "blue wheaten" that is not the right color get along great as does the lavender roo. They are all together and I am thinking I will probably separate them soon. I hate to do it prior to Christmas vacation as I hate to have the chores so involved for the lady that takes care of the animals when I am gone. I may have to separate the roos and if so, then I might as well separate the pullets as I want them for breeding early next year. I lost one of my little Dominiques to a predator, probably a hawk, today. They had been laying for about a month and they could be easily caught and held. I lost a beautiful P Smith splash pullet a couple of weeks ago the same way. I hate keeping them penned, but it will only get worse as the weather gets colder. I do not like losing them, period!

 

[dstokely]

They all look like pullets to me too - congrats! Surprised your Smith cockerals aren't as sweet and mellow as mine - I love them all and think I've sold my extras to other am fanciers.

Do you sell then locally? I am just trying to figure out what I will do with mine once they start laying and I don't plan for that to really kick into gear until next year. Where I live is pretty remote, so I don't feel I have a local market. While I might ship eggs, I don't feel too keen on shipping day old chicks.