- Sep 4, 2010
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Hello,
On Sept 3rd, I purchased two pullets (on a whim).
I was told that they were "two or three months old" (reasonable answer from someone with that many chickens
I am hoping that they will be ready to lay in December (I have started using a light on a timer in the coop in the mornings so that I have more consistent eggs from my other two girls during holiday baking and nog season)
They are a Gold Laced Wyandotte Brahama F1 cross.
Lucy (the smaller of the two) is developing wattles.
Ethel (the larger of the two) is not. Ethel is almost as large as my 2 1/2 year old Rhode Island Red
I am not particularly familiar with either breed (other than they are winter hardy which is nice up here in the cold North) so I'm not certain what normal development for these breeds are.
Here's Lucy with her tiny wattles
poultry 014 by wildcelticrose, on Flickr
and here is the much larger (almost as large as my 2 1/2 year old Rhode Island Red
), yet wattleless Ethel
poultry 015 by wildcelticrose, on Flickr
On Sept 3rd, I purchased two pullets (on a whim).
I was told that they were "two or three months old" (reasonable answer from someone with that many chickens
I am hoping that they will be ready to lay in December (I have started using a light on a timer in the coop in the mornings so that I have more consistent eggs from my other two girls during holiday baking and nog season)
They are a Gold Laced Wyandotte Brahama F1 cross.
Lucy (the smaller of the two) is developing wattles.
Ethel (the larger of the two) is not. Ethel is almost as large as my 2 1/2 year old Rhode Island Red
I am not particularly familiar with either breed (other than they are winter hardy which is nice up here in the cold North) so I'm not certain what normal development for these breeds are.
Here's Lucy with her tiny wattles
poultry 014 by wildcelticrose, on Flickr
and here is the much larger (almost as large as my 2 1/2 year old Rhode Island Red
), yet wattleless Ethel
poultry 015 by wildcelticrose, on Flickr