POLISH THREAD Talk about your Polish and post pics of your Polish

[chickendales]

ive only had 2 agresive polish in 10 years both hatchery stock

 

[cmsdvm]

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From the one picture, it looks male, it's very hard to tell with just one picture and just one chick, though. My most difficult hatches are the ones where they are all one sex- nothing to compare them to- you keep doubting yourself and it's hard to decide. My son is doing a science project and we've had fun collecting data using the string and washer old wives tale method. I may post results just for fun when he gets the data analyzed. I was trying the hold by the neck method someone mentioned but was not sure at all. I still like crest sexing best of all.

 

[chickendales]

cmsdvm
what u rap ur roosters crest with

 

[cmsdvm]

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I usually use medical paper tape, but I've also had good luck with the 2 inch masking tape and wider electrical tape.

 

[chickendales]

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I usually use medical paper tape, but I've also had good luck with the 2 inch masking tape and wider electrical tape.

dose it rip out feathers

 

[lanietx]

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i have 2 polish roos. they are both very curious! they are always right under my feet when i am in their area of the yard. i would say they are tame, but skiddish as well. i can bend down and pet them, however often they will freak out a little, but they never run away. they just flop their wings and squack, while staying right their under my feet. between them and the hens, its hard to get things done sometimes. i can pick them up, they freak out a little, but i can always settle them down and hold them in my lap for awhile. they are always coming and looking in the back door and pecking at the glass. they are never aggressive. they are just a lot of fun!

 

[pbirdhaven]

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My Polish want to nib into everything that's going on. I have a buff laced roo that is super friendly, I suppose because he was quarantined in the carport when I got him and so sees me a lot. My WCP roo is in his first breeding cycle and can't decide if he wants to be protective or have his crest scratched. He'll start to come at me, then seems to think about it and comes over for scritches. My blue roo is skittish but not aggressive. My GLP roo, on the other hand, has gone into super attack mode. He lost his partner in December and was in the coop by himself for a while, then I put an unattached Sumatra pullet in with him for company, and that's when the games began.

All four are still cockerels, so I think that the newness of raging hormones is a factor along with coop fever from not getting outside for so long. The weather's some better now, but the pen areas are sloshy mud.

 

[curlique12]

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i have 2 polish roos. they are both very curious! they are always right under my feet when i am in their area of the yard. i would say they are tame, but skiddish as well. i can bend down and pet them, however often they will freak out a little, but they never run away. they just flop their wings and squack, while staying right their under my feet. between them and the hens, its hard to get things done sometimes. i can pick them up, they freak out a little, but i can always settle them down and hold them in my lap for awhile. they are always coming and looking in the back door and pecking at the glass. they are never aggressive. they are just a lot of fun!

Thats how mine is but sometimes he fluffs up at me and stomps. And how do you know when they become a rooster and not a cockerel?

 

[muddyhorse]

cockerel under a year. rooster is over a year

 

[sawmane1]

My babies!