breed/sex help please:)

[beepbeepinajeep]

I didn't think about people ordering plain old white leghorn pullets getting a festive order But, that makes sense.

I hope Orange is a pullet. If we have two roosters is there a chance that they will be ok together?



On an unrelated note, we are hatching eggs in an incubator for the first time and I just heard a loud tap and one of my banty eggs was wiggling all around! How exciting!

 

[beepbeepinajeep]

Have your opinions changed?

EEs:

White Leghorns:

 

[Sequin]

All your chicks are beautiful! I think your one light colored EE is a roo. Orange looks like a possible pullet. Strawberry and Blueberry look like roos to me.

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

Agree on the light ee, orange & blue. not sure on red

 

[ArizonaDesertChicks]

I think the top EE is probably a roo, second EE is probably a pullet, strawberry is a roo, orange may be a pullet (but need to check again in a couple weeks), and blueberry is a roo.

 

[beepbeepinajeep]

That is what I was thinking too. My son named the EEs Henny & Penny. Poor Penny... she's a boy We bought the EEs from someone at church & she said she'd take them back if they weren't pullets. I will have to make some decisions about which roo to keep. Penny is getting aggressive with the other chickens. He does think I am top chicken, but he can even be aggressive with Henny.

 

[StrawberryHouseMouse]

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Not good for much of anything? What are you talking about !? They are excelent white egg layers.

 

[beepbeepinajeep]

Which would you keep... the EEer roo or one of the white leghorn roos? I am planning keeping less than 8 pullets/hens... doesn't that mean I can only keep one roo?
Thanks!

 

[Chickndaddy]

White leghorn rooster, no much good for anything

They are excelent white egg layers

From what I can recall... Roosters are not good egg-layers...

Edited to add I see a bunch of boys.​

 

[beepbeepinajeep]

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They are excelent white egg layers

From what I can recall... Roosters are not good egg-layers...

Edited to add I see a bunch of boys.​

Do you think that all the white leghorns are cockerels?