jenniferlamar70
Songster
Love it! I'd put up the popcorn eating emoji but I don't know how.
I'm swinging both ways with Freya. My immediate reaction was 'boy' because of the coloring comb and arching tail. That comb is hard to tell on Freya because of what I'm guessing is a melanizing factor adding some darkness which might be disguising the coloring. On the other hand, I have a girl who had arching tail feathers at that age, but her comb was ivory for a very long time. Time will tell! You can cheat and find the skin along the back where the wings tips fall and see if there's any saddle feathers started. I think they peaked through the skin at about 11 weeks? He was crowing by 14.
The name is perfect if she's a she, by the wayeither way, absolutely striking bird.
thank you the darkness on her head makes her comb look much redder and she's not showing any signs of attempted crowing nor any saddle feathers I've checked her tail looks so boy because the straight paddle like feathers molted and her curved feathers are so round at the tips... all my boys try to mount her too and they don't try on each other
Their is no doubt Freya is a girl. At 17 weeks her brother has flowing saddle feathers and the obvious red patches.