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[lady feathers]

pullet

 

[rusteerooster]

I'm very suprised that a pullet will display the neck feathers the same way a rooster will. I have much to learn about the ways of chickens.

 

[theoldchick]

Females usually stick their head feathers up while a male will have a necklace of hackle feathers sticking out around the neck.

Check out this unhappy hen-the one without the teeth.

 

[rusteerooster]

If I may ask, what in the pictures indicate she's a pullet?

 

[rusteerooster]

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Is she angry because you gell'd her a mohawk?

 

[schellie69]

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No hackle feathers and no pointy saddle feathers. I see my girls do this when they are working on pecking order.

 

[rusteerooster]

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No hackle feathers and no pointy saddle feathers. I see my girls do this when they are working on pecking order.

Thank you for the sexing details. They are definitely working out who's gonna be the queen b.