I have to talk POLISH!

[K Epp]

What do you think. Its lacing makes it look male, but the feathers are much wider than my other roo. The crest is rounder too.

 

[mrchicks]

I'm hoping hen. For both of us, as I have two identical birds right now. Mine are 10 weeks, is yours close to the same age?

 

[K Epp]

I'll have to look it up, but I think it is older about 16 weeks I think. The blue is 8.5 mths old. I have a blue pullet too and no eggs do far.

 

[mrchicks]

I spend a silly amount of time staring at mine, trying to figure them out. I have 3 of the silver laced, one is definitely a roo, he started crowing at 7 weeks. The other two, nothing so far.

Same problem with the golden laced, I know one is a roo, one sure looks pullet, and one is an Igor. Traits of both hen and roo, hunch backed. Odd little bird. I'll take and post some pics, maybe I can get help too.

 

[flower]

This is Sissy. On sunday she was lethargic and not eating or drinking. I brought her inside and forced her beak open to feed her yogurt and diluted apple cider by a syringe. The next day she still would not eat so I cleaned out her nostrils which looked stuffy and forced her to eat more as above. By the next day she was back with the flock behaving normal. I fell lucky to have been able to help her.

 

[newbie32]

I spend a silly amount of time staring at mine, trying to figure them out. I have 3 of the silver laced, one is definitely a roo, he started crowing at 7 weeks. The other two, nothing so far.

Same problem with the golden laced, I know one is a roo, one sure looks pullet, and one is an Igor. Traits of both hen and roo, hunch backed. Odd little bird. I'll take and post some pics, maybe I can get help too.

LOL I spend a lot of time looking at mine stupidly trying to see something magically appear that will give me a hint! I have a confirmed polish pullet that is gorgeous. My silver laced is, I believe, a cockerel but no crowing. He acts and looks like a boy at 12 weeks though. My Orpingtons are an enigma. I cant figure them out at all! At least with the polish it is obvious if their feathers are pointed or not. The buff coloring makes them all look pointed to me!

 

[mrchicks]

Here is the one that I am praying is a pullet, she looks like it to me:


And a questionable Golden Laced:


I'll try to get some better pictures when it's not quite so cold and windy.

 

[mrchicks]

This is Sissy. On sunday she was lethargic and not eating or drinking. I brought her inside and forced her beak open to feed her yogurt and diluted apple cider by a syringe. The next day she still would not eat so I cleaned out her nostrils which looked stuffy and forced her to eat more as above. By the next day she was back with the flock behaving normal. I fell lucky to have been able to help her.

 

[lesslea317]

I spend a silly amount of time staring at mine, trying to figure them out.  I have 3 of the silver laced, one is definitely a roo, he started crowing at 7 weeks.  The other two, nothing so far. 

Same problem with the golden laced, I know one is a roo, one sure looks pullet, and one is an Igor.  Traits of both hen and roo, hunch backed.  Odd little bird.  I'll take and post some pics, maybe I can get help too.

I still can't tell mine either and it's 16 weeks old! Mine looks like sissy above, but sissy looks the same as the others on the page to me...hopefully I'll get an egg soon so the girls can keep it because they have already named it Inky and Inky could seriously mess up my breeding plan if it's a rooster. Slp/faverolle

 

[K Epp]

I went back and looked and I think I got mine around the 1st of July So that would make it about 16 weeks. So they are about the same age.