how do you tell rhode island red pullets a apart?

[rhode island red king]

how do you tell rhode island red pullets a apart?

 

[Tdub4chiks]

Good question. I can only tell my Frenchi, because I think she is a Production Red & not a RIR. She's alot lighter than the others.

 

[oldchickenlady]

Sometimes size...but leg bands are the only sure way. All mine look so much alike I can't tell any of them apart except the one that keeps a slightly poopy butt. I have put different colored zip ties on mine. On the RIR's they are on the right leg, the BO's on the left leg.

 

[BantamoftheOpera]

for me it's the feather patterns around the neck, the sounds they make and the facial structure. It takes a second sometimes but I generally know who's who.

 

[Cowgirl71]

The main way I tell mine apart is by their combs. Each one is unique. This only works though when they're older and have developed a sizeable comb...

 

[CMV]

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Me, too. I generally don't name new birds until their second year with us anyway and by that time they have developed their own comb patterns.