Blue Laced Red Wyandotte THREAD!

[DirtCreature]

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Comb and wattle development is the key to sexing for me. Here is a picture of a couple of my chicks at around the same age as yours. Note the pink, wider comb and wattles on the chick in picture #1. This is a rooster. Then notice in picture #2 the lack of wattles and color in the pullets comb. Hope this helps

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those are 4 weeks old? mine look noting like that! they are so little and deff dont have that many feathers at all! now im kinda worried. LOL

 

[DirtCreature]

The other day i got 5 chicks, (all 4 weeks old) 3 BLRW and 2 crosses i think of white sexlink and maran...? Im pretty sure one of the crosses is a roo, just because of its size in ratio to the others... but im not sure. im bad at guessing sexes as far as chicks go. here are some pic's and i will try to number them. Thank you in advance for any input i sure do appreciate it guys and gals.

chick #1 one of the crosses (i think is a roo) look how big it is compared to the others:

chick #2 BLRW

chick #3 BLRW (i think this one might be a roo because of the dark color?)

chick #4 BLRW

the 5th is a smaller one of the crosses and im pretty sure is female. so i didnt post pictures of it.

 

[chickee]

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Comb and wattle development is the key to sexing for me. Here is a picture of a couple of my chicks at around the same age as yours. Note the pink, wider comb and wattles on the chick in picture #1. This is a rooster. Then notice in picture #2 the lack of wattles and color in the pullets comb. Hope this helps

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/54909_p1080341.jpg
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/54909_p1080118.jpg

those are 4 weeks old? mine look noting like that! they are so little and deff dont have that many feathers at all! now im kinda worried. LOL

I thought yours were older than that. Sorry to have worried you

The chicks in my pictures are around 8 weeks. 4 weeks is way to young to tell the sex. Now you know what to look for though

 

[DirtCreature]

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those are 4 weeks old? mine look noting like that! they are so little and deff dont have that many feathers at all! now im kinda worried. LOL

I thought yours were older than that. Sorry to have worried you

The chicks in my pictures are around 8 weeks. 4 weeks is way to young to tell the sex. Now you know what to look for though

ok thanks pal... LOL. i will wait 4-5 more weeks and take more pics maybe then we can start to guess!

 

[colby318]

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Re: chick#3. You can't sex blr by color. You'll have to wait a month or so and wait for the combs to pinken and wattles to develop to tell the males.

 

[BigKitty09]

This is my new BLRW pullet from dare2dream farms. I believe she is at 10 weeks right now. I could only get 2 more chickens to add to my 3 since we live in the suburbs, so I chose an EE and BLRW my favorite chicken looks-wise. I just wanted variety and don't care about showing or breeding, though I would be interested in improving the breed of the BLRW when I finish Aggie school and get my own farm. Anywho here is my sweet little girl with me mum. Meet Fawks.

Her feather were all ruddy when we got her but we gave her a little bath and waiting for her feathers to grow out. Will post more updated pictures soon.

 

[mhazelwd]

My chicks are about 6 weeks now. I was supposed to have 3 hens and a rooster. Two have wide combs, one has a smaller comb and the last has almost no comb at all. Three of them have tail feathers and one (with a wide comb) has almost nothing for tail feathers.

I guess I need to wait longer.

 

[desertmarcy]

How old before the BLRWs start laying regularly? I went to great lengths to get some nice birds from hatching eggs. I have 10 hens and 2 roos from 3 different egg batches that hatched out on 2/20/11, 3/31/11, and 4/7/11. I have been very disappointed in the number of eggs I'm getting from these. I get at most 2/day, and frequently none. The barred rocks and Delawares, on the other hand, are almost all laying. I know these are bred for good egg production and the BLRWs are not, but come on----with the price of organic feed, these need to be a little bit more productive.

I won't even have enough fresh eggs to sell as hatching eggs if they don't pick up. How patient do I need to be?? These and my black copper marans are the worst layers of 8 different heritage breeds I have.

 

[Katy]

Mine are good layers, but Wyandottes are a slow maturing breed so you need to give them some extra time.

 

[luvinrunnin]

We have SLW and they lay pretty well. They did take a 2 week or so hyatus as it was well over 100 with the heat index, plus they were molting. They are back to laying 4 a day (usually get 5 or 6) out of 6 hens. They are 2 years old. Just give them a little more time.

I have an order in for some young adult BLRW in a month or so. I can't wait! They are sooo pretty!