LateBirdFarms
Crowing
All this talk of intersex chicks has me worried!
I'm still trying to grab a decent picture of her neck and some side pics, but I'm getting a bit concerned so I thought I'd post and ask and then head back down to the coop to see if I can do better. One of my EE chicks (almost 18 weeks) has grown some pretty prominent looking tail feathers! Hackle feathers are thin with some eye tricking patterns but definitely rounded, feathers at tail base are rounded like a pullet instead of sharp and spilly as seen in male saddles and comb and wattles are almost nonexistent and peachy with no reddening whatsoever. At first I thought maybe the main tail feathers had been damaged, I do have a hen higher up in the pecking order that likes to yank the chicks away from the food and water stations by the tail, but on closer inspection they don't appear to be. I've never seen a tail like this on any pullet I've ever had!
It doesn't help that I read some article posted by someone regarding female chicks incubated in cool temperatures growing to look very male... and something about laying only male offspring but thats neither here nor there... has my pretty pullet changed her mind?
ETA:
Finally found my old post with progress pics of this one
https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/ladies-gents-weigh-in-on-my-6wk-girls-boys.1436530/
This girl is "Muffy"
I'm still trying to grab a decent picture of her neck and some side pics, but I'm getting a bit concerned so I thought I'd post and ask and then head back down to the coop to see if I can do better. One of my EE chicks (almost 18 weeks) has grown some pretty prominent looking tail feathers! Hackle feathers are thin with some eye tricking patterns but definitely rounded, feathers at tail base are rounded like a pullet instead of sharp and spilly as seen in male saddles and comb and wattles are almost nonexistent and peachy with no reddening whatsoever. At first I thought maybe the main tail feathers had been damaged, I do have a hen higher up in the pecking order that likes to yank the chicks away from the food and water stations by the tail, but on closer inspection they don't appear to be. I've never seen a tail like this on any pullet I've ever had!
It doesn't help that I read some article posted by someone regarding female chicks incubated in cool temperatures growing to look very male... and something about laying only male offspring but thats neither here nor there... has my pretty pullet changed her mind?
ETA:
Finally found my old post with progress pics of this one
https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/ladies-gents-weigh-in-on-my-6wk-girls-boys.1436530/
This girl is "Muffy"
