Give me pictures of your chickens and I'll try to sex them

[kokekokko]

Our Anericauna chick's birthday is 9/11, is 6 weeks old.

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[draye]

Pullet or Cockerel? About 4.5 - 5 months old, Crested Polish and EE mix. I started my own thread but only got 2 responses and I need more because if it is a male, I am going to caponize him and if he's a girl, I don't want to cut into her. LOL

Neat, I'm breeding Created Easter Eggers. Right now it is looking like a pullet to me. Most of the boys don't have that much crest with the first Polish cross. I've done one cross back to Polish and got bigger crests but I sold them all off so not sure how many were boys and how many we're girls. Right now I have a Partridge colored Polish rooster that really needs crest work but I think that he will create the crests. I'm going after more half and half but think I may try to get some 3/4 and 5/8th so I can get a better crest on some boys and grow them out to put over some Naked Neck Easter Eggers that I'm also working on to make some Crested Naked Necked Easter Eggers. Later on I may got for feathered legged ones.

 

[Wishapup]

Pullet or Cockerel? About 4.5 - 5 months old, Crested Polish and EE mix. I started my own thread but only got 2 responses and I need more because if it is a male, I am going to caponize him and if he's a girl, I don't want to cut into her. LOL

If indeed 5 months old, definitely a pullet. Its face is pale, not typical of a cockerel.

 

[Sylviaanne]

Neat, I'm breeding Created Easter Eggers. Right now it is looking like a pullet to me. Most of the boys don't have that much crest with the first Polish cross. I've done one cross back to Polish and got bigger crests but I sold them all off so not sure how many were boys and how many we're girls.

Right now I have a Partridge colored Polish rooster that really needs crest work but I think that he will create the crests. I'm going after more half and half but think I may try to get some 3/4 and 5/8th so I can get a better crest on some boys and grow them out to put over some Naked Neck Easter Eggers that I'm also working on to make some Crested Naked Necked Easter Eggers. Later on I may got for feathered legged ones.

Someone posted about breeding and said you need 3 of what you want to breed. You breed the first two and breed one of their offspring to the 3rd bird. I think it was one roo and 2 hens. You breed the roo and a hen, take one of their babies and breed to the 2nd hen.

I have some beautiful splashes from my CP and probably one of my EEs. I want to try to breed them and see if I get true splashes. Probably won't but I think it's worth the effort to give it a try. I have 4 off them, 2 of each sex but the first is a lot bigger. I'm not sure how old the smaller ones are but the older one is about 4.5 - 5 months old. I had a female the same age but a predator must have gotten her because she's gone and been gone a while. It was pure luck that I ended up with 2 pullets and a cockerel all the same age. I wish I had known they would turn out this pretty, I would have tried sooner and harder to find out who their mother was/is. The first one heading into the coop is a pullet, the 2nd photo is the younger cockerel. We have had rain but it's been dry for 2 days so I don't know why they haven't taken a dust bath. They are so dirty.

 

[kacklinghen]

I would say the bottom one not only does he have a strong waddle and crown but on the back of his left foot has a little bump on it which will most likely be his spur in the future. Hens don't have that

 

[Sylviaanne]

If indeed 5 months old, definitely a pullet. Its face is pale, not typical of a cockerel.

Well, I was looking for a consensus and I think you just tipped me over the top. I don't think I can argue with her face. What has made me seem so stubborn over it is that she runs in a pack that I call my Wild Boys. They refuse to sleep in the coop unless I trap them and put them in a cage. The only ones who crow are my Welsummer babies and not even all of them crow.

 

[Wishapup]

Well, I was looking for a consensus and I think you just tipped me over the top. I don't think I can argue with her face. What has made me seem so stubborn over it is that she runs in a pack that I call my Wild Boys. They refuse to sleep in the coop unless I trap them and put them in a cage. The only ones who crow are my Welsummer babies and not even all of them crow.

I have two Ameraucana pullets around the same age who sleep outside occasionally. They fly out of the run, spend the evening free-ranging, and then disappear around evening. Twice they've been out in rain/ice-storms. Last time Lucy did this, she flew down from nowhere as I was walking toward the coop and starting chattering to me. Maybe she was lonely all night.

I have many cockerels, and only the higher-ranking roosters crow frequently. There are a number that have crowing contests, a few who crow occasionally, and three six-month olds who have never crowed due to their low flock status.

 

[Sylviaanne]

Ok, I didn't know that, I thought they all crowed when they reached the right age. I figured it was just a matter of time until they all started crowing.

 

[draye]

Someone posted about breeding and said you need 3 of what you want to breed. You breed the first two and breed one of their offspring to the 3rd bird. I think it was one roo and 2 hens. You breed the roo and a hen, take one of their babies and breed to the 2nd hen. I have some beautiful splashes from my CP and probably one of my EEs. I want to try to breed them and see if I get true splashes. Probably won't but I think it's worth the effort to give it a try. I have 4 off them, 2 of each sex but the first is a lot bigger. I'm not sure how old the smaller ones are but the older one is about 4.5 - 5 months old. I had a female the same age but a predator must have gotten her because she's gone and been gone a while. It was pure luck that I ended up with 2 pullets and a cockerel all the same age. I wish I had known they would turn out this pretty, I would have tried sooner and harder to find out who their mother was/is. The first one heading into the coop is a pullet, the 2nd photo is the younger cockerel. We have had rain but it's been dry for 2 days so I don't know why they haven't taken a dust bath. They are so dirty.

That's one way to do it. It doesn't produce as many babies at one time. I usually pick two to four hens at a time to put with my rooster. This last batch I used three hens, they were at least 1/2 sisters. Two looked almost exactly alike and the other one quite different. I got 14, 13 now from that hatch. I think I'm going to see if I can't keep a rooster from there to put back over some NN hens. As far as your splash to splash breeding it should work if they are true splashes. Splash to splash equal splash. Although I have heard that continual splash to splash will gradually start fading. Said that they need a dose of blue on occasion.

 

[mrslovely]

any idea on this roo?