Maran - pullets or cockerels

[alscatS]

I got these Maran Peeps in June with a 6/11/2014 hatch date - I was looking for egg laying chickens of any breed to start off with - these little guys grew quick but I did not pay much attention to their development until now when I was looking when Maran chickens start to lay eggs. Now I think I have 2 cockerels

- ooops - I have attached a pic - if they are males and get loud I might have to get rid of them -

I am thinking with those beautiful long neck feathers they are some mighty males.......

 

[Rhandi74]

Yes, they both look like males. My Marans chicks are about the same age and the pullets still have small combs and waddles that are starting to get pink.

 

[alscatS]

They will NOT be providing me with beautiful large brown eggs then -

well as long as not too noisy I can keep them - neighbors will not like the crowing early in am -

 

[Rhandi74]

Sorry, mine have not started crowing yet. I had 9 and only 2 were pullets. Terrible odds. I will not be able to keep all my Roos. Crowing is ok where I live but I can not keep all the Roos.

 

[alscatS]

they are not making noise yet - but one is trying too - poor kids have raised them since 4 days old - hope they stay quiet - 2 crowing at all hours will not work out -

 

[BantamLover21]

Both are cockerels.

 

[Wyandottes7]

Yup, those are males.

 

[PoultryQueen101]

I live on 1 and a half acres and my neighbors are seperated by a privacy fence. I have the closest room to them, yet the only morning in ever heard the roosters crow when I woke up, was on Christmas. I can barely hear them from the front of my house. We have like... 6 or 8 roosters currently able to crow, 3 or 4 still growing. I dont hear anything. Hope you have the same luck with your two gorgeous roosters.

 

[alscatS]

so they are no more - tasty though - they were skinned to save those beautiful feathers - but now have to figure out how to make something out of the skins - the capes & saddles are wonderful....
I skinned them - saving all savable areas and nailed and rubbed in borax - 2 last wing pieces were saved and layered in box with borax -those will be at least a month - skins have been stretched with borax for a week and today have to hit any wet spots with borax - but I am looking for how to clean the borax off the feathers.... and how to make stuff out of the skinned portion - any ideas or web pages you could point me to would be great!!! I am looking for more fashion - craft ideas then tying flies - although flies have not been ruled out -i just don't know anything about tying flies.

thanks - all

 

[Mountain Peeps]

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