July Hatch-a-Long (including 4th of July hatch-a-long)

[FortCluck]

Okay....Frankie is still stumping me. He/She will be 12 weeks old on the 9th. Every day I go back and forth whether he/she is a cockerel or a pullet. The waddles and comb are no where near as colored as a lot of the other cockerels in the pen, but seem slightly larger than the other pullets waddles and combs. What is your guess?
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Pullet... I literally have her twin. Mine is one of the Polish Deathlayers.

 

[AgnesGray]

As I understand it, what happened with the lumber supply is that during the 1-2 month complete shutdown the lumber industry was not seen as "essential," this despite the fact that most of it is not what I would call a close contact industry and would I imagine be at very low risk for spreading the virus unlike meat packing plants where employees are working cheek by jowl. So that two months is what we're seeing now. I know I'm needing to build a coop and run for my not quite month old CCLs. I'm going to have to knock something together out of the scrap that I've got laying about, just something that will "do" for a while instead of the chicken palace I'd planned.

That's what we've done for now. I covered with tin metal roofing where I am short of hardware cloth as I had to get some of the boys into a timeout pen and the growout coop is occupied. It's not pretty, and needs better ventilation, but it's working temporarily.

Okay....Frankie is still stumping me. He/She will be 12 weeks old on the 9th. Every day I go back and forth whether he/she is a cockerel or a pullet. The waddles and comb are no where near as colored as a lot of the other cockerels in the pen, but seem slightly larger than the other pullets waddles and combs. What is your guess?
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What a cutie! Is s/he a blue satin? Looks so much like mine. I am terrible at the guessing game, so take this with a load of salt, but I'd guess boy. Does seem to have pullet-y feathering though. So maybe I'd guess girl. Helpful, right?

 

[kelseyk]

Feathers look pulletish to me. So far anyway.

I'm hoping pullet. I want to see what color eggs it would lay. Lol!

 

[kelseyk]

Pullet... I literally have her twin. Mine is one of the Polish Deathlayers.

I am hoping pullet!

 

[kelseyk]

That's what we've done for now. I covered with tin metal roofing where I am short of hardware cloth as I had to get some of the boys into a timeout pen and the growout coop is occupied. It's not pretty, and needs better ventilation, but it's working temporarily.



What a cutie! Is s/he a blue satin? Looks so much like mine. I am terrible at the guessing game, so take this with a load of salt, but I'd guess boy. Does seem to have pullet-y feathering though. So maybe I'd guess girl. Helpful, right?

He/She is supposed to be a sapphire Gem/Lavender Orpington cross.....but I have found pics online of a Sapphire Olive Egger that looks exactly like this chick. It's siblings - all 3 pullets ended up completely black feathering and the 2 cockerels are a beautiful Lavender color. So I either got an oops egg, or the eggs are more barnyard cross than advertised.

 

[FortCluck]

He/She is supposed to be a sapphire Gem/Lavender Orpington cross.....but I have found pics online of a Sapphire Olive Egger that looks exactly like this chick. It's siblings - all 3 pullets ended up completely black feathering and the 2 cockerels are a beautiful Lavender color. So I either got an oops egg, or the eggs are more barnyard cross than advertised.

Hope it’s an oops but in a good way

 

[AgnesGray]

He/She is supposed to be a sapphire Gem/Lavender Orpington cross.....but I have found pics online of a Sapphire Olive Egger that looks exactly like this chick. It's siblings - all 3 pullets ended up completely black feathering and the 2 cockerels are a beautiful Lavender color. So I either got an oops egg, or the eggs are more barnyard cross than advertised.

Are they standard size? My blue satins are split... Some in the batch were mostly black and a few were blue. Amazing how similar they look in many ways.

I bet sapphire gem to lavender orpington will turn out super cute!

 

[FortCluck]

Hey I know everyone here has chickens or pictures of some... Enter some of your pics into this contest... Pretty Please

Link to Enter:

Enter Pictures for 2021 BYC Calendar

 

[chickiebaby1]

Okay....Frankie is still stumping me. He/She will be 12 weeks old on the 9th. Every day I go back and forth whether he/she is a cockerel or a pullet. The waddles and comb are no where near as colored as a lot of the other cockerels in the pen, but seem slightly larger than the other pullets waddles and combs. What is your guess?
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I would say pulley also! I have one that looks almost just like that.

she is in the back. I think the frizzles are boys.

 

[igorsMistress]

You're lucky, I guess. The guy in the video is in New England and I'm in Ohio. We've been out of HWC in stores for some time now. I overheard a lowes employee telling a customer yesterday that lumber should be coming in again in August and that the supply source is dry for now. Hopefully soon! I've got a chicken tractor to finish.

There are already a lot of people here that have chickens. We are also less populated so I'm sure that has an impact.