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Okay guys, I thought it was TIME FOR AN UPDATE! So my beauties, have moved in with their parents as of about a month and a half ago. They LOVE it. Now, Of the beautiful brown ones I was questioning in the OP (6 of them) 2 of them are definately female and 4 are definately male. They are getting their green heads now too, funny but to me the males look nearly all appleyard while my hens look rouen/appleyard and the funny thing is what the parents look like, I am positive that they were fathered by a pekin and mothered by a hen which I will picture below and I believe her to be rouen/appleyard/cayuga/swedish (at the very least lol. So anywho, thought I could show you guys how beautiful my babies are. OH by the way one of the females had developed a foot issue, well actually I think she sort of hatched with it. I had to help all the brown ones out of the shell and she in particular had been upside down in the egg she had a funny foot. I brought her into the house (where she now thinks she belongs LMAO. Her name is Lucy. I just got her harness from Nettie (indoorducks) yesterday so I am excited about that. She was kept inside all day and night at first because her foot needed some rehab and once she got better I put her in a nice little pen outside during the day and bring her in for bed.... but boy does she tell me when shes ready to go out in the morning! LMAO
she is BOOOOSSSSSSSYYYYY! I call her lulu.
Here are some pics:
the whole group in the OP with the exception of Lulu and a few of the black ones that I sold to cut back on the flock.
The brown group, they are sooo cute! When I took these about a week and a half ago the boys werent quite ready for the green heads, but they look too goofy now with their awkward half green heads for me to take a picture yet!
Here is a pic of Diantha she is one of the Hen moms I was talkin about with the rouen/appleyard genes, notice the brown tipped wings? Well the whole underside is the brown and black rouen hen pattern.
Here is one last pic for now of the group, see the appleyard coloring I was talkin about with that white chested one? Weird.
Enjoy!
Here are some pics:
the whole group in the OP with the exception of Lulu and a few of the black ones that I sold to cut back on the flock.
The brown group, they are sooo cute! When I took these about a week and a half ago the boys werent quite ready for the green heads, but they look too goofy now with their awkward half green heads for me to take a picture yet!
Here is a pic of Diantha she is one of the Hen moms I was talkin about with the rouen/appleyard genes, notice the brown tipped wings? Well the whole underside is the brown and black rouen hen pattern.
Here is one last pic for now of the group, see the appleyard coloring I was talkin about with that white chested one? Weird.
Enjoy!
