Spitzhaubens

[Faraday40]

After seeing those pics, I want to hatch some more Spitzhaubens!

 

[homeschoolin momma]

After seeing those pics, I want to hatch some more Spitzhaubens!

Unfortunately I'm not getting any eggs right now!

 

[JacinLarkwell]

My hens are too young and I can't get a rooster until I order birds next spring, otherwise I'd probably have some incubating now

 

[SueT]

the 7 incubator chicks relaxing together, 5 weeks:

In Sprights, it's easy to tell the boys from the girls. The Spitzhaubens, can't tell yet, but I think the one in the middle may be a cockerel. The one on the far right, pretty sure she's a pullet, and the one on the left I don't know.

 

[Nimah]

I just bought these lovely chicks! I was told they are four weeks old. When is it possible to sex them?

 

[SueT]

I just bought these lovely chicks! I was told they are four weeks old. When is it possible to sex them?

Nice! The boys will begin to develop wattles at 7-8 weeks. So it takes a while. I'm waiting to sex mine too, they are 5 and 6 weeks. At 6 to 7 weeks, if you can get them to look up, you might start to see the beginnings of red wattles peeking out.
Keep posting photos of them, so we can see them grow...

 

[JacinLarkwell]

One of my chicken friends said that Spitzhaubens are super hard to breed (naturally) has anyone had fertility problems with theirs?

 

[homeschoolin momma]

One of my chicken friends said that Spitzhaubens are super hard to breed (naturally) has anyone had fertility problems with theirs?

I'm so sorry, I have to chuckle with this one. My spitzies have 100% fertility and usually close to that in hatch rate. Out of my orps, seramas and spitzies, spitzies are the easiest.

 

[homeschoolin momma]

The only thing i can think would be having too many girls for only 1 roo. Last year i had 1 roo to 4 girls simply because that's all I had. This year I had 2 roos over 6 girls. I would really like to have 2 over 10, but getting the girls is up to chance. For whatever reason, I hatch more boys than girls while my friend @Faraday40 hatches more girls than boys. Havent figured that one out yet either!

 

[JacinLarkwell]

The only thing i can think would be having too many girls for only 1 roo. Last year i had 1 roo to 4 girls simply because that's all I had. This year I had 2 roos over 6 girls. I would really like to have 2 over 10, but getting the girls is up to chance. For whatever reason, I hatch more boys than girls while my friend @Faraday40 hatches more girls than boys. Havent figured that one out yet either!

Really? My local store was selling sexed female chicks

Okay. I thought they had fine fertility, bit he made me wonder. He like to try and prove he knows more than me too, lol