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[pipdzipdnreadytogo]

Well, I think I have spotted another roo. I've been watching this leghorn for quite a while, and I've been debated on the sex. In addition to the comb being larger and redder, s/he now has a red wattle/earlobes. Not quite sure on what it is, other than it is red and not there on the other two. If it is a boy I am going to be so mad!! I got it from the pullet bin! Soo if anyone wants him or a D'Uccle roo, or a mystery chicken who I tentatively call a RIR, let me know

This is a girl. Boys do not feather in those colors. Her comb is normal for a Leghorn girl.

 

[Chic-n-farmer]

Well I thought about that.. But it was a TSC bantam pick. Although I have had no luck finding another game bantam (which is what I am assuming it is).

He/She has a tight pea? comb, but the full on black face is something I am not finding in the game bantams, they all seem to have red.
I did have a good look around when he started growing, but still struggle to find something that fit dead on.
The colours are the same... the black green look. The tail feathers are starting to look more roo like with some droopy feathers happening. If it turns out to be a roo, I should be able to identify him easier than if he turns out to be a hen.

Either way he could be mistaken with being a crow if he was out and not with other chickens.

I have thought about posting a picture of him in the Sumatra thread and ask their opinion.

Thanks Brad





Better pictures for full effect

Looks like a Sumatra to me, too. Where does your TSC get their chicks?

www.feathersite.com is a wonderful place to see chick and chicken pictures.

 

[Chic-n-farmer]

This is a girl. Boys do not feather in those colors. Her comb is normal for a Leghorn girl.

Brown Leghorn flock

 

[pipdzipdnreadytogo]

Sooo pretty! I have a little light brown Leghorn pullet in my brooder right now. Can't wait until she's grown up!

 

[Mother2Hens]

Quote:

We could use some global warming. Hey, Gore, send us some, we're freezing.

Old Salt~


People fear and disbelieve what they don’t understand. Natural gas is burned for cooking, heating, and electricity production. Coal is burned for electricity production. Petroleum is burned for transportation. Burning of fossil fuels release gases and the heat is trapped (greenhouse effect) and warms the planet (global warming). Global warming doesn’t mean we’ll all have warmer weather in future. As the planet heats, climate patterns change, with more extreme and unpredictable weather across the world – many places will be hotter, some colder. Some wetter, others drier. All of these aspects negatively affect people, plants, and animals.

 

[BackyardBitten]

thanks for the home-made scratch advice! I do a little more research to see what is best. thanks again. Loving everybody's pictures by the way!

 

[Chic-n-farmer]

Sooo pretty!

I have a little light brown Leghorn pullet in my brooder right now. Can't wait until she's grown up!

Thanks, but it wasn't my pic. I got it from feathersite.

That said, I have owned a rainbow of Leghorn varieties. Red, silver, white, & brown. Best layers by far were hatchery whites. Never missed a day of laying a huge egg!

Currently I have SQ LF whites (big egg, but nowhere near the egg size of a hatchery bird's, but soooo gorgeous!) and SQ bantam browns (new this year, anxious to see how they do).

I always have leghorns in my flocks to take up the slack for some of the more ornamental laying breeds.

You can't beat leghorns for producing more eggs on less feed.

 

[Old Salt 1945]

Guineas will range much further than chickens. Short of keeping them penned, I don't know how to keep them away from your neighbors. Maybe you should just get on really good terms with the people next door... hopefully they like guineas, too.

I have had people stop in the road, by our lane, to take photos of mine.

Funny how we take a strange critter for granted and some people have never seen one.

Yeah, I want to STAY on really good terms with the neighbors. The are amused by Rooster Cogburn (very, very free range, all over the neighborhood), but 4 guineas roosting in the apple tree by her bedroom window might be a whole 'nother thing. They will have to be kept in the chicken yard one way or another.

John

 

[Old Salt 1945]

Quote:

We could use some global warming. Hey, Gore, send us some, we're freezing.

Old Salt~


People fear and disbelieve what they don’t understand. Natural gas is burned for cooking, heating, and electricity production. Coal is burned for electricity production. Petroleum is burned for transportation. Burning of fossil fuels release gases and the heat is trapped (greenhouse effect) and warms the planet (global warming). Global warming doesn’t mean we’ll all have warmer weather in future. As the planet heats, climate patterns change, with more extreme and unpredictable weather across the world – many places will be hotter, some colder. Some wetter, others drier. All of these aspects negatively affect people, plants, and animals.

Thanks for the lesson. People have been sounding the alarm about the demise of civilization since the early 1800's. Population bombs, famines, running out of oil, bird flu, swine flu, aardvark flu, name it and someone will tell you it is scientifically proven that ............ Gloom, disaster, annihilation, rampant hangnails. At the risk of setting off a firestorm of a global warming discussion on a chicken blogsite, let me just say that I am as confident of the veracity of the "Global Warming" predictions as I was of the predictions of a new "Ice Age" in the 70's. It's a bunch of hooey designed to suck funds from the government (and thus from the taxpayer's pockets) to promote academics, bureaucrats, and God-only knows what various agendas. This, in turn, leads to HUGE political donations so that the preferred large donors will see maximum returns for their donations. In that, it is extraordinarily successful. If a person is truly dedicated to this, don't add to the problem. Go to your electrical breaker box and shut off the electricity, throw away your car keys, and return to the 1850's. With only horsepower, do you have any idea what the cities smelled like?

Awww heck, that's enough blather for a chicken website.

John

 

[bradselig]

Welcome to all the new members! I've been skimming over posts, but will try to really read them after I mow.

In the mean time I have the following chicks to sell. PM if interested.
Week old chicks
3-4 birchen Marans (can possibly include a blue chick, otherwise all blacks)

All these are around 6-9 weeks old.
1 white silkie chick
2 tolbunt polish chicks
2 cream crested legbars (pair)

The following Roos are 10-12 weeks old. Free! Or they will be processed when big enough.
2 silver laced wyandottes
1 Swedish flower hen (pretty sure a roo, but not 100%) -has some bent toes