Ivory the Rooster: Day 665 *updates*

[77horses]

Look who was caught taking a dust bath in the laundry again!

 

[redhen]

Shes adorable...

 

[77horses]

UPDATE: Day 53

It's official; Ivory is outgrowing her current cardboard brooder box!

When she stands up, she can look right over the top because she's gotten so big, and she's recently started trying to jump up onto the side of her box...although she can't jump that high just yet. But she's getting pretty close to being able to jump out if she wanted to!

My dad has a large, capacious plastic storage bin that I can get this weekend to put her in. It's much bigger than her small, temporary cardboard box that she has now.

And she will be switching to pine shavings, like all the adult chickens have in their coops!

It's amazing how quickly she's growing up...soon she will have her own roomy "big girls box" that we always used for the larger, older chicks, or if we had more than one chick sharing a box. But she's getting so big that she gets to have it to herself! And there's really no one to share it with anyway.


Also, Ivory's comb is getting even more slightly bigger every day.

I'm seriously started to believe she's going to be a rooster, unfortunately.

No going outside today for her (him?), since it has been and still is raining outside and everything is soaked and cold.

She can wander around in my room as her daily outside time.

I will post pictures later!

 

[77horses]

UPDATE: Day 54


It's official! Ivory is big enough to jump out of her box if she wanted to!

Last night I was just getting ready for bed and she jumped out if her box and onto the floor!

LOL now I know I really do have to get her a bigger box...but can't until this weekend. So for now while I'm not here to supervise her, the cover to her box will stay partially open instead of open all the way. That should keep her from getting out until I can get her the bigger box. I haven't told her yet, but she keeps complaining to me about how her box is too small. She will be surprised when I show her the new, bigger one!

Today, Ivory's tail feathers are growing out even more. They aren't completely fanned out, but the pin feathers on growing longer. More and more pin feathers are growing all over her. Also, her comb is even bigger.

Pictures:

Oh and apparently she's also heavy enough to press down on the keys on my laptop...This is what she typed when she walked all over my laptop while I wasn't watching.

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I'm going to make a poll to ask about her gender and what everyone thinks...I will post it in a little while...

 

[HEChicken]

For 8 weeks, the comb is still pretty yellow and I don't see any sign of wattles. Hard to say if a rooster or not since she also should be fully feathered by now. It could be the comb/wattles are developing just as slowly as the rest of her or could be she's a hen.

 

[77horses]

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Yeah that's why it's so hard to decide which is which. I think I will need to wait until her feathering and development catches up with her age before I can make a more accurate guess.


I can see where her wattles would be, but they aren't really starting to develop yet.


Here's the link to the poll I created:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=3856979#p3856979

 

[77horses]

1/26/10: Day 56


Ivory is almost two months old!

And I have more pictures for 56 days old that I just took today.

Her comb is really beginning to look rooster-ish and I'm seriously starting to believe "she" is really a "he". Her comb is even starting to become a little red!

And it looks like "she" might be growing some wattles, too...

Look at her new feathers and her tail! Her tail is all spiky!

Pictures: Day 56 (she's lying like that because she's attempting to take a "dirt bath" on the blanket that she's posing on.

Spiky tail!

Right now she's taking a "dust bath" on my bed and it's so cute! She fell asleep for a moment and just laid there.

Now she's fluffing up and rolling around like our big, adult chickens do in the sand in their dust bath locations outside.

Today I'm bringing Ivory with me on her weekend trip to my father's house.

Do you think she's really starting to look more like a rooster?

 

[77horses]

I will try and get a better picture of her comb...once she's done dust bathing on my bed.

 

[77horses]

COMB PICS:

In this one you can kinda see how red her wattles are getting...

What do you think???

 

[Mr chicken dude]

Form the looks now I would say its a roo but its kinda hard to tell because her comb may be so behind just like his/her body is....Or her comb and wattles could be where there expose to be now an she is a pullet....hard to tell...I do think though that his/her combs and wattles are behind just like the rest of her body....