Gender guess 4 week Barnevelder

[Jayteetee]

I think you’re all right. I was freaking myself out prematurely!

How are your babies going? I’ll attach a pic of my 18 week old pullet. I would love to see how yours have developed & who turned out to be pullets/cockerels

 

[Sam0strange0]

Was Ronnie a boy? I’m having the same issue with mine. The first two have more of the pattern and the last two are more solid black but I’ve noticed they have very mix matched features.

 

[HorseGirlAbby]

Was Ronnie a boy? I’m having the same issue with mine. The first two have more of the pattern and the last two are more solid black but I’ve noticed they have very mix matched features.

Ronnie turned out to be a lovely cockerel. Out of yours, I’m thinking at least 1, 2, and 4 are cockerels, and possibly 3 as well. I’m just going off the comb size, really. They’re got pretty big combs. How old are they?

 

[maryfrancis3]

Ronnie turned out to be a lovely cockerel. Out of yours, I’m thinking at least 1, 2, and 4 are cockerels, and possibly 3 as well. I’m just going off the comb size, really. They’re got pretty big combs. How old are they?

Ahhh! I thought it was a cockerel too. I was hoping we would find out. Thank you

 

[Sam0strange0]

Ronnie turned out to be a lovely cockerel. Out of yours, I’m thinking at least 1, 2, and 4 are cockerels, and possibly 3 as well. I’m just going off the comb size, really. They’re got pretty big combs. How old are they?

They are roughly a month thank you for the reply

 

[Fluster Cluck Acres]

How are your babies going?

Oh my gosh! I have not been getting notifications from this thread for some reason!

Here are my 3 hens. Top is Foggy. I don’t think she’s laying yet even though she’s the biggest roundest and fluffiest meatball of a bird. 2nd pic is Misty. She’s the smallest of the 3, the most light silvery-blue color, and was the first to lay. Last pic is Hazy who has the most blue and started laying almost immediately after Misty.

And Cloudy the unexpected cockerel who has stolen my heart. He’s so amazingly handsome. He’s currently living in a bachelor pen but now that “his” girls are laying, they’re going to go in a breeder pen soon.

Your girl is gorgeous! She looks double laced. Mine are all single laced

Was Ronnie a boy?

As someone else mentioned, Ronnie did turn out to be a cockerel. I think your 1 & 4 are definite cockerels. 2 & 3 could be, too, based on the redness in the combs already. But that can also be due to lighting in the pics.

 

[Fluster Cluck Acres]

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This is my blue Barney at 6 weeks. He’s a boy!

Do you still have this guy? I’d love to see what he looks like now. We opted to keep Cloudy the blue because Ronnie’s color was really not great. His silver was goldish and he had red/gold leakage on his wings. He was also extremely timid, flighty, and fearful.

Cloudy on the other hand I love his color and he’s been a nice easy going guy so far. He likes being around people and will eat out of hand, but won’t let me touch him. He’s never been aggressive nor tried to be dominate with me.

 

[Catandherchicks]

Oh my gosh! I have not been getting notifications from this thread for some reason!

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Here are my 3 hens. Top is Foggy. I don’t think she’s laying yet even though she’s the biggest roundest and fluffiest meatball of a bird. 2nd pic is Misty. She’s the smallest of the 3, the most light silvery-blue color, and was the first to lay. Last pic is Hazy who has the most blue and started laying almost immediately after Misty.

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And Cloudy the unexpected cockerel who has stolen my heart. He’s so amazingly handsome. He’s currently living in a bachelor pen but now that “his” girls are laying, they’re going to go in a breeder pen soon.

Your girl is gorgeous! She looks double laced. Mine are all single laced

As someone else mentioned, Ronnie did turn out to be a cockerel. I think your 1 & 4 are definite cockerels. 2 & 3 could be, too, based on the redness in the combs already. But that can also be due to lighting in the pics.

Great pics! Lovely birds. The girls all turned out different. Where did you get them from?

 

[Catandherchicks]

How are your babies going? I’ll attach a pic of my 18 week old pullet. I would love to see how yours have developed & who turned out to be pullets/cockerelsView attachment 3907243

Quite a beauty!

 

[Fluster Cluck Acres]

Great pics! Lovely birds. The girls all turned out different. Where did you get them from?

They are feed store chicks from Privett Hatchery... which I think is now owned by Hoover and unfortunately I don't see any blue barnies on their website this year. Honestly they're not the best in type... I guess typical hatchery birds. But I don't mind.

Unfortunately we may not be keeping Cloudy too long. We've run into a few issues with him. First, he's the loudest rooster on the property. He starts crowing hours before sunrise every morning. He cries wolf a lot- alerts for no apparent reason. (I'm tired of running outside ready to fight a predator when nothing is there). Another flaw is that he is not built like a Barnevelder. While his coloring is stunning, his body type (in my novice opinion) is not like a Barnevelder should be. He is tiny (smaller than my largest hen) and he stands very erect with his wings pointed down. He constantly looks like he's about to crow (which he probably is). And his last and most fatal flaw is that he's rough with his girls. I can tolerate the first 2, but I'm not putting up with the last one for long. The girls do like him and submit to mating, but in spite of that he rips out feathers and makes the girls scream when he mates them. He's about 8 months old so I feel he should be outgrowing a lot of his young-cockerel habits very soon. But if not, we'll be looking for a successor.

Personality-wise he's a nice bird and he's beautiful. But it's a 3 to 2 score, and the flaws are currently winning.


This is is posture most of the time:

Here you can see how he's not much larger than his same-age hens. Foggy, the girl to the right, weighs more than he does.