maggielynn
Hatching
- Apr 23, 2022
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I have 11 Andalusian chicks. Most are grey, I have a few white, and a few black. This is my first time raising this breed and I've been trying to do as much research as I can but I'm having trouble distinguishing the Roo's from the Hens. I don't know if they are all the exact same age, I got them at the same time from the same place so I would assume they are. But I know that the Hens get a red comb like the roo's but that their comb folds over as they get older, and I am trying to get rid of the Roo's before they get too big as I already have the Roo's I want, but I don't want to accidentally give away the wrong chickens. The one in the first picture I suspect to be a Roo (Roo A). He's in the second photo as well next to another one I suspect to be a Roo (Roo B) but that one is based off of behavior. They square up to each other. The bottom two in photo 3 I also question to be Roo's, because the two above them are also Andalusians and have almost no comb. In photo 4 Roo B is next to one with almost no comb. And in photo 5 you see Roo B next to another one I'm assuming to be a Roo. The difference in their combs is just so noticeable. I'm wondering are all the ones with a definitive comb Roo's? Some have combs that are reddish, and some have combs that are the same size but not nearly as red, and then there's other ones with almost no comb at all as you could see in photo's 3 and 4. I just don't want to rehome a bunch thinking they're Roo's only to find out I rehomed all my hens.