June Hatch-A-Long

[FortCluck]

Hmm, this is a new one to me too.

I do not get the wet bulb and stuff like that so I am not even sure what to suggest. Hopefully someone knows what to do.

 

[FortCluck]

She'd probably just talk the whole time and make weird faces into the camera.

Here's the little oddball with no tail and green legs...
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How old is it? It doesn't look like a cockerel to me because it doesn't seem red in the face or comb.

 

[CluckNDoodle]

I do not get the wet bulb and stuff like that so I am not even sure what to suggest. Hopefully someone knows what to do.

I have a chart somewhere but it's not something I do personally and I've never heard of the incubator.

 

[BertyRoux]

How old is it? It doesn't look like a cockerel to me because it doesn't seem red in the face or comb.

5 weeks, I think. I'd rather it not be a cockerel! There is one black in this batch that is already growing little red wattles that screams cockerel to me. Hard to say for certain about anything with the mixed breeding though... I've got a couple hens with black combs.

 

[ShrekDawg]

5 weeks, I think. I'd rather it not be a cockerel! There is one black in this batch that is already growing little red wattles that screams cockerel to me. Hard to say for certain about anything with the mixed breeding though... I've got a couple hens with black combs.

That comb looks very red to me for only 5 weeks old!!! Usually the girls don’t start to redden until they get close to laying.

 

[ShrekDawg]

It also appears to have super thick legs like a rooster and also the boys usually take forever to develop tails although not always.

 

[BertyRoux]

It also appears to have super thick legs like a rooster and also the boys usually take forever to develop tails although not always.

I don't disagree. I would guess at least 3 of the 8 will be cockerels including this one, based on combs. As far as the tail goes, there is actually no tail nub back there compared to what the others have. Just some little poofy side butt feathers :

 

[FortCluck]

I don't disagree. I would guess at least 3 of the 8 will be cockerels including this one, based on combs. As far as the tail goes, there is actually no tail nub back there compared to what the others have. Just some little poofy side butt feathers :
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Looks tailless like Araucana

 

[ShrekDawg]

I don't disagree. I would guess at least 3 of the 8 will be cockerels including this one, based on combs. As far as the tail goes, there is actually no tail nub back there compared to what the others have. Just some little poofy side butt feathers :
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That’s hilarious

 

[gimmie birdies]

I bought this little blue rooster from a girl who could not keep roosters I gave him to this hen. He has no tail and thick legs too.