Show off your Delawares! *PIC HEAVY*

[jeremy]

Well, I've got a broody Delaware who is pretty much refusing to give up at her attempts to set on a clutch...

Even when I toss her off the nest.

You better believe I'm getting lots of stink eye for it.

 

[Stevenson]

At what age will I be able to start telling if my delaware chicks are hens or roos?

 

[joletabey]

Watch their combs carefully, you can start telling by two weeks, three weeks or so. You will get fooled sometimes, but there should be a bit of size difference. I have been told, and do not really know how true this is, that the males will get color faster, so the chicks that get the color coming in right away will be male. I am not sure that has proven true or not, you can't tell it by mine. Hope you get lots of girls!

jeremy, did you just give that beauty a bath or something?

 

[jeremy]

Beth, that dirty old thing! LOL, no. I had just thrown her off the nest in those pictures, she was NOT happy.

I think I might have broken her of her broody spell, she went up on the roosts with everyone else tonight.

 

[rebel yell]

Well Im going to expand a little & get me sme Delawares, never had any of these, anything special that I need to know about them ?

 

[Hillbilly Hen]

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Just that they are the most friendly, in your face, attention seeking chickens on the face of the earth.

 

[Stevenson]

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So if this is true, then these would be some examples of color (and lack thereof) at 1 week old:

I must have scared the one on the right

If this theory holds true, I have 6 right now that are showing color and 12 that are not.....I REALLY LIKE THOSE ODDS!

 

[Hillbilly Hen]

Sounds like good odds if this is true.
Now, why did you have to scare the little chick?

 

[Stevenson]

I just went and checked again. I have 9 with no color in the wings, 6 with quite a bit of color, and 3 that have some slight coloring. I am hoping that this means I am no worse than 50/50!

 

[Hillbilly Hen]

Good luck! I have 4 that are three weeks old and 6 that are just under a week old that I got from Kathy. I also have about 2 dozen fertile eggs sitting on the table and no broody.