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[NotAFarm]

I hate when they fool you like that!!

 

[ChicagoClucker]

Franchesca new right where to go to get away from the unwanted attention of the bantam roo. My dog Mia loves her chickens!

 

[megpie021]

I am worried Ms Pepper is actually Mr Pepper. She better not be fooling me because she is one of my favorites.

 

[ChicagoClucker]

I am worried Ms Pepper is actually Mr Pepper. She better not be fooling me because she is one of my favorites.

How old and what breed is Ms Pepper? That pinkish comb and pink wattles may be saying, Hello, I am Mr. Pepper.

 

[megpie021]

Pepper is about to be 5 weeks monday. I bought her as a silver laced wyandotte pullet. So... yeah. I really dont want to rehome any one. But if it is mr pepper itll have to happen. I did post pepper in the breed /gender and people said wyandotes can be tricky and to wait it out.

 

[ChicagoClucker]

Pepper is about to be 5 weeks monday. I bought her as a silver laced wyandotte pullet. So... yeah. I really dont want to rehome any one. But if it is mr pepper itll have to happen. I did post pepper in the breed /gender and people said wyandotes can be tricky and to wait it out.

Don't rehome her. Wait and grow her out a bit, to make sure she is not a he. I don't raise Wyandottes, so they could be tricky. I raise Orpingtons, and if they show pink comb and wattles at that age, its a good chance they are cockerels. But wyandottes may mature differently.

 

[megpie021]

We will wait

like I said pepper is a favoite. Always first to greet me, and first to check things out. She was also the first one to try to make an escape by flying. Its gonna be sad if pepper is a mr. Even our little d'uccle bantams are looking very hen like still, and they were straight run. Since pepper was sold as a pulket im tryong to hold out hope.

 

[Faraday40]

x2 on the waiting. It looks like Mr. Pepper to me, but Wyandottes are not my breed. The only rose combs I hatched are a Sebright & Dominique. Both had no comb/wattles until a few months old. It went from pale pink to red about 1 week before they started laying. I'm a visual person, so I took many pics to follow development. Perhaps they can help you see similarities or differences.

ADULTS:







GROWING UP:
5 months old








About 16 weeks old:









6 weeks old




4-5 weeks old

 

[Molpet]

Well a sad morning

the CX hen I kept would have been 1 yr next week... I found her dead, stiff and purple... comb almost black... She had laid 1 egg this spring a few weeks back... I was thinking yesterday I should think about soup...too late now.. she was 12.28lbs
The CX are so sweet and I played with them too much.. I learned not to play with my food LOL... but I do not think I'll get any more of them, too hard to restrict their food so they have a good life... and soooo hard when they are pulling at my pants, looking up at me with sweet faces.... when I gather them to process.. jerk cockerels are easier for me to process, I have had it with them by the time I catch them.
I have 1 pullet and 3 cockerels out of her from last fall... The older hens will not accept 'romance' from the cockerels, but I have 2 younger ones that do...and the pullet is laying so not all is lost for my meat project.
RIP 'Little Fatty'

 

[ChicagoClucker]

Well a sad morning

the CX hen I kept would have been 1 yr next week... I found her dead, stiff and purple... comb almost black... She had laid 1 egg this spring a few weeks back... I was thinking yesterday I should think about soup...too late now.. she was 12.28lbs
The CX are so sweet and I played with them too much.. I learned not to play with my food LOL... but I do not think I'll get any more of them, too hard to restrict their food so they have a good life... and soooo hard when they are pulling at my pants, looking up at me with sweet faces.... when I gather them to process.. jerk cockerels are easier for me to process, I have had it with them by the time I catch them.
I have 1 pullet and 3 cockerels out of her from last fall... The older hens will not accept 'romance' from the cockerels, but I have 2 younger ones that do...and the pullet is laying so not all is lost for my meat project.
RIP 'Little Fatty'

So sorry about your CX.