I posted this in a previous thread but it's getting lost in the rubble, so hopefully this post will get some answers...
This was supposed to be a BLRW chick. It apparently has proper lineage (nicely laced parents) but IMO something went wrong, it looks like a mutt to me.
Anyways.
Thought it was a pullet a month ago but now my hopes are sinking.
He/she is now 10 weeks old and although there is no comb and the wattles are barely there, I see saddle feathers growing in. Face is getting red, hackle feathers look pointy, wing feathers are shiny/irridescent and those legs ain't small.
I'm so discouraged - we're over-run by boys and I can only keep a handful, the rest will have to be re-homed after all this hard work and investment - and who the heck wants a mutt rooster anyways?.
I took some pics today and would love confirmation that Scarlet is, indeed, a boy
THANK YOU!!
This was supposed to be a BLRW chick. It apparently has proper lineage (nicely laced parents) but IMO something went wrong, it looks like a mutt to me.
Anyways.
Thought it was a pullet a month ago but now my hopes are sinking.
He/she is now 10 weeks old and although there is no comb and the wattles are barely there, I see saddle feathers growing in. Face is getting red, hackle feathers look pointy, wing feathers are shiny/irridescent and those legs ain't small.
I'm so discouraged - we're over-run by boys and I can only keep a handful, the rest will have to be re-homed after all this hard work and investment - and who the heck wants a mutt rooster anyways?.
I took some pics today and would love confirmation that Scarlet is, indeed, a boy
THANK YOU!!
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