Hi All,
New member here from Australia.
First I'd like to say this is an amazing community, I've learnt so much about chickens browsing these forums - more so than any other community or resource online. It's incredible to see such an active, knowledgeable and helpful community on a traditional style forum in 2021 - I love it
I'm new to raising chickens, although I've had a pair of Hyline Browns in the past, I got my first traditional backyard breed with 2 barred rocks back in March 2020. They went broody in the spring and I decided to get some fertilized eggs.
So the first broody's batch of fertilized eggs hatched in early November - 7 out of 8 hatched with the last one turning out not to be fertilized so I was very happy with the results.
Now they are 14 weeks, I'm relatively confident 3 are pullets and 3 are cockerels but one of them has a lot of lacing and I'm not sure. Leaning towards pullet because the comb/wattles are smaller like the other pullets. Hoping for some confirmation. Also if anyone can guess what it's crossed with that'd be great. I thought maybe Wyandotte but that's the only laced breed I know of with my limited knowledge. I also don't know the parents because the eggs came from a friend of a friend who lives out of town.
So any thoughts on the sex, including if I may have wrongly assumed the ones I feel confident about. Thanks in advance
First two pics are of "Dusty" - the laced one I'm unsure of.
Next pic is an example of one of the 3 cockerels - they all look almost exactly the same in terms of feathers, size and comb/wattles.
Last pic is an example of one of the 3 pullets - these three I can tell the difference more easily - mainly with size however their comb/wattles are all basically the same. One of these 3 (the one pictured) also has some lacing although less strong than "Dusty" in the first two pics.
GR
New member here from Australia.
First I'd like to say this is an amazing community, I've learnt so much about chickens browsing these forums - more so than any other community or resource online. It's incredible to see such an active, knowledgeable and helpful community on a traditional style forum in 2021 - I love it
I'm new to raising chickens, although I've had a pair of Hyline Browns in the past, I got my first traditional backyard breed with 2 barred rocks back in March 2020. They went broody in the spring and I decided to get some fertilized eggs.
So the first broody's batch of fertilized eggs hatched in early November - 7 out of 8 hatched with the last one turning out not to be fertilized so I was very happy with the results.
Now they are 14 weeks, I'm relatively confident 3 are pullets and 3 are cockerels but one of them has a lot of lacing and I'm not sure. Leaning towards pullet because the comb/wattles are smaller like the other pullets. Hoping for some confirmation. Also if anyone can guess what it's crossed with that'd be great. I thought maybe Wyandotte but that's the only laced breed I know of with my limited knowledge. I also don't know the parents because the eggs came from a friend of a friend who lives out of town.
So any thoughts on the sex, including if I may have wrongly assumed the ones I feel confident about. Thanks in advance
First two pics are of "Dusty" - the laced one I'm unsure of.
Next pic is an example of one of the 3 cockerels - they all look almost exactly the same in terms of feathers, size and comb/wattles.
Last pic is an example of one of the 3 pullets - these three I can tell the difference more easily - mainly with size however their comb/wattles are all basically the same. One of these 3 (the one pictured) also has some lacing although less strong than "Dusty" in the first two pics.
GR
