Please help!! I have 2 nine week old silver sebrights

[Pia78]

Well I actually have 3, but the 1 is def a female (her comb is almost nonexistent and blackish brown).

Here are the 2 in question:

Robin



Rose

 

[BantamFan4Life]

I think Robin is a rooster and Rose is a hen.

 

[Pia78]

Ok I can live with that. I always thought so, hence the name Robin. Can be male or female even though I was "sold" 3 hens.

 

[A Chicken Owner]

Robins a roo. Even though you ask for pullets only, it's possible that they get the gender wrong.

 

[TheCrazyClucker]

Robin- Cockerel
Rose- Pullet

 

[Pia78]

ROSE IS NO LONGER :-(
I think she was taken by a mongoose as we were not home when they went in to roost :-(

 

[A Chicken Owner]

Sorry for your loss

 

[Whittni]

That's so sad maybe you could reinforce your coop and run with hard wire?

 

[iheartnh]

Oh, wow, I was just going to comment on how pretty she was. I am so sorry!

 

[Pia78]

Whittni, the coop is a 3 x 3 wooden "house". And they don't have a run...They free range. When they get cold they return to the coop (its mid winter here (61F during the day).   I realized because I left the coop door open and we returned home after they had all gone inside, they were basically "sitting ducks" inside for the mongoose.