To me, Reese and Cookie look straight, and Snickers and KitKat do not. Which means that Sweety carries one copy of the recessive straight comb gene. *this is based on what I could see from the pics, head on pics showing the comb more clearly might help a bit more*
More pictures . . .these poor babies, lol. They're taking a nap it took me a bit to give up on the zipties idea.
So they all have roosterThe smallest leg bands I could find won't stay on I have some zip ties, but they're all the same color, lol. I guess they'll be known as 'the quads' until the leg bands fit
combs?
When my Elly had a litter of 5 girls and 5 boys, those silly colored Velcro bands got lost often. We eventually used nail polish. blue for boys, pink for girls. Oldest got one nail painted, second got two, etc . Even at 6 weeks at the first vet visit, the nail polish came in handy to knowing who got weighed and vaccinated.
I've thought about doing that in the past but the only nail varnish I have to hand is shiny metallic stuff that makes the older birds bite when I wear it, and new chicks already go through that toe biting phase...
They bite their own toes?
And each other's! I mean, they peck at everything at that age just to see if it's food, but mine always go after toes so enthusiastically that I think they must think they're worms or something.
They're too young to know if they're roosters yet. But, as far as I know, most chicks get combs. The way to tell gender is male's comb will get larger and redder earlier than the females.So they all have rooster
I thought about the nail polish, either on the toes or a spot in different locations, but as @kattabelly mentioned the pecking thing made me change my mind.
Beautiful!! Years ago we bred Great Pyrenees. I used the nail polish method as well.
