Isbar thread

[dutchbunny83]

mstarr-- sounds good! I think winter time it will be easier/more effective to ship eggs vs chicks. Let me know!!!

Deanna-- I always sex by tail feathers and I have higher accuracy than other people I know who sex other ways. If you've hatched a few times you shouldn't need another for comparison. Watch the tail feathers between 1-2 weeks. If it's still just fuzz and not really a tail that means roo. If it has a feathered tail between 1-2 weeks then you are looking at a girl. Once they get a little older you can go by comb, but for me personally that's not always the most accurate and would be hard without comparison. Take some pics of its back/tail and put it on here with its age and I will gladly give you my opinion

 

[DeannaA]

mstarr-- sounds good! I think winter time it will be easier/more effective to ship eggs vs chicks. Let me know!!!

Deanna-- I always sex by tail feathers and I have higher accuracy than other people I know who sex other ways. If you've hatched a few times you shouldn't need another for comparison. Watch the tail feathers between 1-2 weeks. If it's still just fuzz and not really a tail that means roo. If it has a feathered tail between 1-2 weeks then you are looking at a girl. Once they get a little older you can go by comb, but for me personally that's not always the most accurate and would be hard without comparison. Take some pics of its back/tail and put it on here with its age and I will gladly give you my opinion

A few days old.



I think 3 weeks.



6 weeks.

 

[lonnyandrinda]

It's a girl- congrats!!! By 7 weeks you would know for sure if it was a boy. The comb would be bigger and pinker by that age.

 

[dutchbunny83]

Girl

 

[DeannaA]

I was hoping. Yeah. Since I only have one, girl is best. Thanks

 

[DeltaBluezTess]

Last set of eggs, I had shipped only 2 hatched and one died then next day......the Legbars eggs in same incubator had 7 out of 12 eggs hatch and all alive a week later......eggs from different sellers....

I have had from one seller a 18% hatch rate from 24 eggs and from others over 45% (3 different sellers)....

so I decided the best way to get Isbars was to bid on them on an acution....won 12 of them! SWEET!

 

[shotzy007]

June Bug, had her first egg yesterday. Lovely green, I have been looking for a comforter that color FOREVER.

 

[DeannaA]

June Bug, had her first egg yesterday. Lovely green, I have been looking for a comforter that color FOREVER.

How exciting.

 

[Nomibear]

She's a beauty! She looks so tiny to already be laying eggs... Isbars aren't bantams are they?

 

[lawatt]

took a few photos of my teenaged chickens today:

Blue, the boy, is 26 weeks old and has *just* started to crow this past week -- he's been slow to develop, but is so beautiful!


and pardon the imperfect focus, but these are Fern (black) and Mabel (blue), who are both isbar/blue marans crosses -- they have just started showing interest in the nest boxes, and i can't wait to see what their eggs look like!

better picture of Mabel, she has the most lovely hints of silver around her neck!

also have one splash isbar pullet who's 8 weeks old, didn't get a photo of her -- and two more 1-week-old splash chicks, uncertain of gender yet but guessing one of each.