Can you Tell its Gender this early?

[crazychickengirl]

Okay...I'm the friend Harley's Girl talked about in the last post. My frizzled cochins are 8 weeks old and are practically naked. Their feathers are taking forever to come in and they've lost most of their fluff. They look like sick little birds! I like to call them the Fuglies. LOL And it looks like they won't be getting their feathers in for awhile because there are barely any starts of feathers anywhere.

Your chick looks alot like one I hatched out from my own flock. I have a frizzled roo (not sure if it's a cochin though) and a mixed hen and when I hatched out one of their eggs it looked like yours. It's feathers were fuller...my cochins have real thin looking feathers. Could it be a mixed breed?

Yours sure is alot prettier than mine...I'm wishing now I wouldn't have gotten them.

Here they are:

 

[mom4morecritters]

BeanBag, adorable baby you have there! I can't wait to see pics of "her" in a month!

crazychickengirl, They DO look like scary sick chicks!

Only a mother can love the fugly ones! The ugly duckling wasn't so cute in the beginning either!

~Anne

 

[Beanbag]

LOLOL That is so so very funny!! Yes, my Frizzle is a mix but I've no idea of what. We only found one chicken breeder near us, and even he has no idea what half his birds are. I only saw 1 frizzle adult on his property and it was a white frizzle hen, I am guessing this is my chick's mother. So your bald little babies are cockerels? I can't wait to see what my chick is. I don't really have a preference on it being a male or a female, I will love him or her either way. Now that we've got the inside temp of their cage to their liking, my little frizzle chick's personality has changed a bit and he/she is more afraid of me, though I expected that. When I was about 17yrs old, my cousin found a duck egg in a nest full of ants that the mother had abandoned, we thought all the eggs must be rotten until she cracked one and it started peeping. We pulled some of the shell off it and realized that the duckling was trapped in the egg because its legs had adjusted over its back and face instead of the normal positioning. The little duckling imprinted on me and I raised it until its feathers started coming in and it became terrified of humans, I eventually had to let it loose with the rest of the ducks near us, and it was happy. My little frizzle was not hand raised as far as I know. But he/she is real gentle with the other birds and very very quiet compared to the others as well.

 

[mom4morecritters]

BeanBag, great story about the duck egg. I have a similar story about wild baby bunnies. Our dogs found a nest of 5 babies, four lived. If I put them back our dogs knew where the nest was and would get them again. The mother would abandon them because of the human smell on them after we handled them. All the advice I received told me NOT to keep them because the chances were so slim that I'd be able to save wild bunnies. Well, that was all the insentive I needed to show everyone they were WRONG! They did live and I hand fed them goat's milk w/an eye dropper. After a few weeks we let them go in our woods. It's so nice to prove EVERYONE else wrong!

I was addicted after that... we started raising domestic rabbits within a month!

~Anne

 

[Solsken Farm]

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Oh! Poor little things!

Here's hoping their feathers come in soon. You must keep them in the shade!!!!!!!!!

 

[LilPeeps]

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Unfortunately, your chicks are curlys, meaning that they have 2 copies of the frizzle gene, which makes their feathers narrow and brittle, and thus prone to breakage. Also, they'll be much more vulnerable to the elements, as their feathers won't offer much insulation or even keep them dry. If these birds are bred with a smooth feathered bird, the offspring will be 100% heterozygous (normal) frizzle.

 

[Beanbag]

Ok... Wow...... I just went to the place where I bought my Frizzle and I found out some very overly interesting new facts about my bird. First... there is no way what so ever that he is 3 weeks old, I am guessing its more like 2-3months old because I got to see the size of the egg he hatched out of and he is too big to be 3 weeks old. Also He/She is half Rhoad Island Red Cochin Bantam. His/her mother is a white frizzle cochin bantam, and its father is a smooth feathered Rhoad Island Red Cochin Bantam.

 

[purr]

yeah my red frizzle cochin is 9wks and fully feathered and i'm pretty sure both of them are males cause they keep facing off .

Here's a pic of one of them

 

[Beanbag]

Purr, Do you have a better more clear picture of your red frizzle cochin??

 

[purr]

I have this one my camera battery is dead though so till tomorrow this is it , hope it helps