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Well, going to have to separate Gomez and Lurch - Gomez is quite the bully! Poor Lurch is terrified of him...I'm just finishing up a small coop so Lurch can have that.
Hey Syl - how are your babies doing? They should be worthy of a few pics by now...:)
Stay warm everyone, it was down to 37F last night..brrr!
 
Has anyone noticed a color difference between pullets and cockerels in mottled Bredas? I've got 9 with a lot of white (most of these have small pink wattles) and 2 with almost no white (very pale pink wattles). I'm concerned I ended up with 9 boys. Yikes! :eek:
(Sorry for the photo quality; I took these with my phone. Also, they LOVE to try and take my fingers off!)
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SilkiesForEver said:
Has anyone noticed a color difference between pullets and cockerels in mottled Bredas? I've got 9 with a lot of white (most of these have small pink wattles) and 2 with almost no white (very pale pink wattles). I'm concerned I ended up with 9 boys. Yikes! :eek:
(Sorry for the photo quality; I took these with my phone. Also, they LOVE to try and take my fingers off!)
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Some of my girls have small pale pink wattles, others have nothing. The boys wattles are definitely larger and redder. How old are they? Mine are around 22 weeks and just starting to crow.
 
boskelli1571 said:
Sorry but it's a little early to be definite - you will have to wait for the hackles and saddle feathers to develop. I'll try and get some pix of mine tonight - it might help :)
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I thought so. I was mostly wondering about the color patterns I've been seeing; didn't know if they correlated with gender. Yes, I would love to see photos of yours!
 
SilkiesForEver said:
I thought so. I was mostly wondering about the color patterns I've been seeing; didn't know if they correlated with gender. Yes, I would love to see photos of yours!
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These pics show the boys v. girls at 22 weeks. Some of the girls have mini-wattles, others have none to speak of. I'm not the best photographer in the world as you can see, but at least you can compare. If you look carefully, you can see the saddle feathers quite clearly on a couple of the boys. The 'odd one out' is George my bantam - he goes to visit them each day! :)
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Definitely wait. I made the mistake of selling 2 that I thought were cockerals and they were pullets. Learned a hard lesson. Now I wait until they are 5 months old and whoever crows and has saddle feathers gets a legband. .
Those are beautiful, I see 2 definite hens in the picture.
 
Had to post my Dominique "Opal" 's first little 1.5-oz tan egg. Here's a pic of Opal's tan egg next to our Cuckoo Breda's 2.25-oz tinted XL egg with someone's tiny cuckoo feather above. We are very pleased with our now 2-yr-old Cuckoo Breda who was one of the last two Cuckoo Breda pullets from RFR of CA. I really hope Dutch Connection continues to keep some Cuckoo Breda stock to keep this hardy Breda variety from extinction. I've had stinky luck with BBS Breda but the Cuckoo Breda has now outlived all the BBS I've ever had. Breda are such excellent egg layers and sweet docile unique-looking pets as well! Our Cuckoo Breda is "Her Royal Highness Charlotte Elizabeth Diana, Princess of Cambridge" but we just call her "Char" LOL!

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