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[WalnutHill]

@WalnutHill here are pictures of the 3 I hatched from the batch I got from you.

This one I am 100% sure is a cockrel. Our daughter named him Lawrence. He does not like ducks

This one I thought for sure was a pullet named Katie. But is showing signs of a cockrel. Will both crow and sing the egg song. Also caught this one sitting on duck eggs one day.


And this little one named Owl, but I call Chicken Little. I have fingers crossed is a pullet. Sweetest little one, very quiet & curious.


I love her poofy face!

they are all grown up! Third is girl, first is definitely boy, second reminds me of one I had that could not decide if girl or boy and went into the stew pot after months of paranoia and indecision. It's looking spring like up there!

 

[OldMissionChick]

they are all grown up!  Third is girl, first is definitely boy, second reminds me of one I had that could not decide if girl or boy and went into the stew pot after months of paranoia and indecision.  It's looking spring like up there!

From day one I knew that first one was a rooster. He has feathered feet, but I think he keeps pulling them out. Do you have any experience with that? He is a sweetheart but doesn't seem to like the ducks.
The second has the long saddle feathers & crows like a roo. S/he just started walking more up right maybe a week ago. Its funny it will cock-a-doodle-do then bawk-bawk-be-gawk. So I dont know what to think, confused maybe.
We are finally starting to look like spring. The yard is melted and the snow in the woods is slowly starting to disappear. I cant wait for warmer weather!

 

[WalnutHill]

I've never had a foot plucker. However, the feather footed roos sometimes wear them off working the hens. If he harasses your ducks, best to find another roo, they are plentiful. The hen is a lovely girl.

Mine never got around to crowing, but he had hackles and saddle, he'd act roosterish, then sing the egg song and cackle like a hen, and if you came in the coop at night he'd scream his head off. He was a disrupter, so he left the flock.

 

[Ravynscroft]

"He left the flock"...

 

[AmyLynn2374]

From day one I knew that first one was a rooster. He has feathered feet, but I think he keeps pulling them out. Do you have any experience with that? He is a sweetheart but doesn't seem to like the ducks.
The second has the long saddle feathers & crows like a roo. S/he just started walking more up right maybe a week ago. Its funny it will cock-a-doodle-do then bawk-bawk-be-gawk. So I dont know what to think, confused maybe.
We are finally starting to look like spring. The yard is melted and the snow in the woods is slowly starting to disappear. I cant wait for warmer weather!

I have a couple that will pull the feathers out on their feet! I thought maybe they were just strange....lol

 

[fishnet1971]

 

[fishnet1971]

Heeeeelp!!!!! This little one is breathing and on day 22. What I do? I have a video

 

[WalnutHill]

Cool! It's almost time!

No external pip? Don't do a thing. It should hatch when ready.

 

[fishnet1971]

WalnutHill, Im sorry to sound like such a moron. Well, I kind of am right now, its my first hatch. I had 5 hatch on Friday(day 20) 1 hatch yesterday (day 21) and figured they were done. I just candled the last 3 and 1 is dead for sure, 1 I see no movement, and the 1 Sultan egg you can see what looks like breathing in that dark part pushing up and down into the air cell. Is that the start of an internal pip? I did not dare touch my other ones since lockdown so I never did see what any of it was like.

 

[fishnet1971]

I didn't know. Ok, glad I didn't do anything. they told me its the internal pip starting.