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[Ksane]

@YardBirdMom The Cuckoo Marans is a boy, you can tell by his color alone. Boys are more.....white striped on black while girls are black striped on white, it makes the boys look way lighter colored. That's the same in Barred Rocks also. I think Nip Nip is a girl or she'd be crowing by now and have shiny pointy feathers around the base of her neck and along the sides of her butt (her saddle feathers). I could be wrong though.
I don't have any experience in Buff Rocks but i know the Barred Rocks I caponized when I was taught how had bright red combs, they were 6 wks old. Their combs were considerably redder than any of the Buffs in your pictures.
So basically I wasn't much help and the only one i know for sure is a boy is the Marans lol Boys also stand up real tall and don't slink off when something grabs their attention like girls tend to do. And boys do a ton more chest bumping than girls do.

 

[Kyzmette]

@Yardbirdmom

I'm finally getting better at telling gender in mine, and the one thing I've noticed that helps time and time again is leg thickness. If you could look at a bunch of the same breed together, the legs will almost always give them away. One of mine recently has had me going back and forth, girl, boy, girl, boy, but I kept thinking that if I went by leg thickness alone, it was a boy. Sure enough... sigh.

I have my eye on another juvenile right now that was doing a lot of male posturing as a chick, chest bumping and puffing up, but the legs say girl, and I think girl will be the final answer.

There's a couple of people here who can sex an EE chick by the comb Every. Single. Time.

 

[lonnyandrinda]

@YardBirdMom I agree Cuckoo Marans is a roo, Nip Nip is a hen- you can distinctly see the white ROUNDED tips to the feathers in the saddle area and also on the neck.

On the Brahmas in the pic with 4 birds the one against the wall is definitely a roo looking at the height and color of the comb. The one close up and to the right I'm not sure on. Can we get a side view? I'm looking for saddle feathers and leg size.

 

[greenbeetle]

@YardBirdMom I agree Cuckoo Marans is a roo, Nip Nip is a hen- you can distinctly see the white ROUNDED tips to the feathers in the saddle area and also on the neck.

On the Brahmas in the pic with 4 birds the one against the wall is definitely a roo looking at the height and color of the comb. The one close up and to the right I'm not sure on. Can we get a side view? I'm looking for saddle feathers and leg size.

Rinda on your pullets you have for sale, are the pure breed cochin's LF or bantam and are they totally black. Thanks

 

[lonnyandrinda]

Rinda on your pullets you have for sale, are the pure breed cochin's LF or bantam and are they totally black. Thanks

Everything I have is large fowl. The cochins that hatched in that batch were blue and black, but I think I have only blacks left.

 

[Loriemarler]

Hey guys all your good thoughts a few weeks ago worked for me! I got the job. I am the new 6th and 7th grade Science Teacher in Dibble

If anyone has Science stuff they want to get rid of I am a new teacher and looking for things for my classroom

 

[artsyrobin]

Hey guys all your good thoughts a few weeks ago worked for me! I got the job. I am the new 6th and 7th grade Science Teacher in Dibble

If anyone has Science stuff they want to get rid of I am a new teacher and looking for things for my classroom

That is awesome!!!


well, after a rough week, poor mama guinea only has the one chick- but better than none i suppose

and a few cute pics for ya-



spit grew up- too darn cute


and this was supposed to be an ee.....hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

 

[Ksane]

That is awesome!!!


well, after a rough week, poor mama guinea only has the one chick- but better than none i suppose

and a few cute pics for ya-



spit grew up- too darn cute


and this was supposed to be an ee.....hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

That little Spit chick is a frizzle? It's beautiful. And the Black and white with the top hat is too cool. Technically an EE is a Blue egg layer (Ameraucana, Araucana, even Legbar) mixed with another breed. That chick *is an EE. Those cavernous nostrils are only in certain breeds (Polish, Spitz, Brabanter to name some) and those are all top hat breeds so that explains that. She came out of a Blue egg so it's a pretty safe bet she'll lay blue or green eggs as an adult. She's a top hatted EE and I think that's way cool! I just may put my Brabanter hen and hatchery Spitz girls with my Araucana boy-they'd make lovely EE's!!

 

[Tony O]

Yep, most surely a snake.

They can squeeze through spaces so small you wouldn't think a mouse could go through. If you have any gulf balls, you can smear them with some egg and after dark, leave them near where it got the chickens from. It'll swallow them thinking they're eggs, but won't be able to break them, and get stuck trying to get out. Then you'll know how it got in. And you can kill the snake, and plug the hole so another one don't get in to kill any more of your babies. Good luck.

 

[subhanalah]

@YardBirdMom
I agree Cuckoo Marans is a roo, Nip Nip is a hen- you can distinctly see the white ROUNDED tips to the feathers in the saddle area and also on the neck.

On the Brahmas in the pic with 4 birds the one against the wall is definitely a roo looking at the height and color of the comb.  The one close up and to the right I'm not sure on.  Can we get a side view?  I'm looking for saddle feathers and leg size.

the thing that has me guessing on the black and white one is, could it be a hen feathered mix? Like a serama?