Red Partridge Orpington informational hatch thread

[BigBlueHen53]

I agree, they still look like pullets to me too, but I am very much a novice and am using your photo-heavy thread to educate myself! My EEs seemed to switch genders daily two years ago up to about 5 months old, so I need all the help I can get!

 

[chickentrains]

Lookin like pullets to me

SUPER fluffy!

 

[K0k0shka]

I agree, they still look like pullets to me too, but I am very much a novice and am using your photo-heavy thread to educate myself! My EEs seemed to switch genders daily two years ago up to about 5 months old, so I need all the help I can get!

What kind of combs do your EE’s have? I find that anything other than the classic regular single comb can be quite hard to sex until fairly late. Single combs get pretty obvious at a certain point.

I visited the boys over the weekend. Comparing them to the girls is very helpful. They make the 3 I kept look even more female I couldn’t get a good picture, but here’s one. I’ll go back soon and take better pictures.

Blinky in the foreground, Lemonade in the background. It’s been 3 weeks since we parted, but I think they still remember me. They perked up at my voice and came to me, but my kids ran into the coop all loud and stompy and scared them away I want to go back for another visit, in peace and quiet without the kids.

 

[BigBlueHen53]

I don't know what to call their combs. I'll try to get a pic later. Most of them are "dinky."

 

[aart]

What kind of combs do your EE’s have?

Most EE have pea combs...which can be pretty good telling gender as most males have 3 rows of peas and females have only 1 row.

 

[BigBlueHen53]

A lot of my EEs have "dinky" little combs like this. Very small, forward combs. Like, half a comb. Is this a pea comb? I don't see anything I would call a "row" of anything. Some seem to have nothing at all, or almost nothing. All my EEs were two years old in March and I believe all are laying, although not every single day. I think I have 8 EEs and I usually get 5 to 7 green eggs a day.

 

[BigBlueHen53]

Oops, would help to post the pic.

 

[aart]

That's a modified pea comb...cross between pea and single.

 

[BigBlueHen53]

That's a modified pea comb...cross between pea and single.

Thank you! Er ... do my hen's legs look funky to you? Please tell me I'm not looking at scaly leg mites!

 

[aart]

do my hen's legs look funky to you? Please tell me I'm not looking at scaly leg mites!

They do kinda, couple lumps there.
Post a new thread in disease with closer pics.