IndianaChickadee
In the Brooder
- Jun 29, 2018
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I got two silver laced Wyandotte and one already has a bright comb at not even 8 weeks so I'm thinking he's a male? LolThe good news is that all 3 laced orps look female so far. What luck! I think you have 1 blue silver laced orp & 2 reg silver laced orps, so a nice variety and easy to tell apart. The very dark one is interesting. I can't wait to see how she turns out. I had a male like that & he turned out stunning, but it took several months. You really can't judge lacing until after they go through several of those juvenile molts.
Here's Trouble with her 2 laced orp babies. Your darker one & mine look like twins. (Yes, Trouble's a Sebright & they're orps 2xs her size.... but they're HER babies.)
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Your green band Dom could be a late blooming male. Does it have a sort of dark wash on the front of legs? (My female Dom, hatched 3-4-18, had lighter feathers like your 1st 2, but the legs assured me she was a female. She just started laying this week, so I'm finally positive of her gender. LOL) When young Bubbles was so much darker. She had the easy to identify more black than white feathering. As she molts each year, her feathers get more white. This year's Dom has more equal color distribution, so it worried me. Here are pics from June & late July:
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.... and one of Bubbles because we just love her:
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