Easter Egger chicks 8 weeks old- pullets?

[Trimurtisan]

I really wish I could say yes! Unfortunately, the Berner and St. Bernard are the reason I lost my last 4 chickens They are wanted for chicken murder I didn’t latch the coop properly and they got out when I wasn’t watching. Walked out later to a crime scene.

Oh...well....ehhh.. That really sucks. I had a Treeing Walker Coonhound once upon a story. We loved each other, but she hated anything else with a pulse. My wife thought she was an evil dog, but I thought she was a perfect representation of the breed. She would instinctively tree when I would take her for a walk, and she had never been on a hunt. She was loud also. I'd egg her on and get her to start chopping and baying for me. Sadly she was involved in the an incident that broke my neighbor's nose and I had to surrender her. The good news is nobody pressed charges, the dog was not euthanized, and she was adopted to go live on a farm.
No Yorkies where harmed in the making of this story, not to say she didn't try.

 

[cstephens1987]

Oh...well....ehhh.. That really sucks. I had a Treeing Walker Coonhound once upon a story. We loved each other, but she hated anything else with a pulse. My wife thought she was an evil dog, but I thought she was a perfect representation of the breed. She would instinctively tree when I would take her for a walk, and she had never been on a hunt. She was loud also. I'd egg her on and get her to start chopping and baying for me. Sadly she was involved in the an incident that broke my neighbor's nose and I had to surrender her. The good news is nobody pressed charges, the dog was not euthanized, and she was adopted to go live on a farm.
No Yorkies where harmed in the making of this story, not to say she didn't try.

Yeah I've got an 8 year old lab hound mutt that killed my last blrw after what was left from the fox attack and I've got a 13 week old lab/coonhound/cattle dog mutt that loves to chase after the chickens and got ahold of my smallest (and dumbest) one by the butt yesterday. She lost a few feathers and he hopefully learned I'm not okay with him eating chickens but otherwise nobody was worse for the wear yesterday

 

[JaimeP]

Some more pics! Getting worried one is a cockerel. Lots of pretty purple in the feathering!

 

[cstephens1987]

View attachment 1853428 View attachment 1853429 View attachment 1853414 View attachment 1853415 View attachment 1853416 View attachment 1853417 View attachment 1853418 Some more pics! Getting worried one is a cockerel. Lots of pretty purple in the feathering!

I'd be more worried by the comb. The purple your seeing is just a side effect of having black feathers. That's how they refract the light, it's not gender specific.

 

[JaimeP]

I'd be more worried by the comb. The purple your seeing is just a side effect of having black feathers. That's how they refract the light, it's not gender specific.

Do you think the comb looks big?

 

[cstephens1987]

Do you think the comb looks big?

yes I do. I think if it wasn't a fibro that would be bright red and suspect olive is going to start getting in some pointed saddle feathers in the next couple weeks. Usually a pea comb that size and shape, especially that young, is a cockerel.

 

[JaimeP]

yes I do. I think if it wasn't a fibro that would be bright red and suspect olive is going to start getting in some pointed saddle feathers in the next couple weeks. Usually a pea comb that size and shape, especially that young, is a cockerel.

I sorta suspected she was a he

 

[Frazzemrat1]

how old now?

 

[JaimeP]

how old now?

About 11 weeks

 

[Frazzemrat1]

Then I agree, that one may be a cockerel.