New Brahma Group: Blue Partridge x Partridge, Plus Dark

oldhenlikesdogs · May 11, 2018

speckledhen said:
Auto-correct? LOL. That chick is the friendliest of all the Brahmas in that group, comes up to me along with the BRs. Must be a boy. I am a rooster magnet, after all.

Oh I'm so sorry, that's hilarious though, stupid auto correct,

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Now we wait and see how your gut instinct works. :pop

You officially have become an experiment.

You do seem to have a more roosters to hens ratio. Did I read that the males determine sex of the offspring in chickens like in mammals?

speckledhen · May 11, 2018

oldhenlikesdogs said:
Oh I'm so sorry, that's hilarious though, stupid auto correct, .

Now we wait and see how your gut instinct works. You officially have become an experiment.

You do seem to have a more roosters to hens ratio. Did I read that the males determine sex of the offspring in chickens like in mammals?

Nope, the hen determines the sex of the chicks, not the male. So, Jill apparently produces more males than females, as we seen in my BR ratio.

Today, I am so sick of the heat already. Where did spring go? I can't work in the heat. I'm letting it all go to pot around here. The garden can die and be covered in grass, limbs can lay around from the winds, etc. If DH won't get someone else to work and clean up this place, it can just go to seed. He is still feeling bad. After he feels better, he'll still be "careful", afraid he'll go back to being in that pain again, so it's a long, drawn-out process to his normal again. I'm not risking migraines since our local little hospital closed where I always went for my migraine cocktail shots when it got too bad. And the chickens, geez, I want them all outside most of the day, not one group for an hour, then another and then another. I am doing musical chickens putting groups back in, letting others out, etc., because they don't get along. It's not fair in the heat for them to be stuck in the barn like that. And I'm sick of broodies, too. No more broodies! I've already had my fill this year. Never mind me, I'm in a bad mood today.

oldhenlikesdogs · May 11, 2018

I'm overrun with broodies too.

We are pretty cold here today, in the 30-40's and drizzly.

speckledhen · May 11, 2018

Took more photos of that chick. I'm calling male on him now. Too many, too shiny orange feathers coming in. Darn it. I wanted a splash girl. A lady is asking for him now that asked about a pair awhile back.

Watch me sell it and it turn into a girl on me.

Here are others.

oldhenlikesdogs · May 11, 2018

Is there a difference in combs when they are younger? Are males wider or thicker? I haven't paid much attention to pea combs and their development.

speckledhen · May 11, 2018

oldhenlikesdogs said:
Is there a difference in combs when they are younger? Are males wider or thicker? I haven't paid much attention to pea combs and their development.

Yes, it's like any pea comb on, say, an Ameraucana. Usually, you can see if a pea comb is really wide at the back. This one is not particularly boyish in shape. Sigh. Very confusing on this kid. If those reddish feathers had no shine, I'd still think it was a pullet (sweetest, calmest chick of the Brahmas), but I see too much deep orange in the newest shoulder/chest feathers now. Splash is harder to see patterning in the feathers than the blue or straight partridge.

1muttsfan · May 12, 2018

Delawares can be hard like that, the pullets sometimes look like little cockerels for a long time.

speckledhen · May 12, 2018

1muttsfan said:
Delawares can be hard like that, the pullets sometimes look like little cockerels for a long time.

But, it seems that Dels show their maleness very early, or mine did. Those big red combs at 3-4 weeks were a definite sign, plus the smut down the backs of the boy cemented that opinion. These pea combed breeds are a little less clear to me. Probably just wishful thinking that he was a she, but he has a girl's very round body! Bad boy to tease me that way.

speckledhen · May 12, 2018

@junebuggena @Sjisty @brahmapapa Is this guy blue? splash? Foot feathers appear white, hackles look super light crystal-blue. Wings have more whitish flight feathers, but upper wings look more bluish. It is male, right?? Will be 4 weeks old Tuesday.