Texas

[LBejaran]

Has anyone gotten so used to your chickens and their babies that you can sex them before they fully feather out?

We had a total of 14 chicks hatch & live this year and I've sexed them all at about 10 weeks. Maybe that's normal for most people, but I was right! The ones I said were females have been doing the mating stance! So excited, I can't wait for eggs to begin popping up! They will finally starting paying me back for all the ripe figs they've been jacking from my tree. Little buggers have learned how to jump four feet up in the air to eat them. Hmph.

 

[chickletteSarge]

I do but according to DW... I'm always wrong... But when it comes to my birds almost always right....my cockrels never have wings longer than the pullets...

 

[hotrodflash]

Has anyone gotten so used to your chickens and their babies that you can sex them before they fully feather out?

We had a total of 14 chicks hatch & live this year and I've sexed them all at about 10 weeks. Maybe that's normal for most people, but I was right! The ones I said were females have been doing the mating stance! So excited, I can't wait for eggs to begin popping up! They will finally starting paying me back for all the ripe figs they've been jacking from my tree. Little buggers have learned how to jump four feet up in the air to eat them. Hmph.

In my experience, the pullets tail feathers develop first, sometimes long before the cockerels get any tail feathers. So far I have been 100% correct when buying straight run. They need to be about a week old for the little tail spikes to start showing.

 

[Jungleexplorer]

Winter must be close. Keep running into snakes.

Found this one while taking an evening stroll with my wife.




Now this is a Rattlesnake. This is called a Coon Tailed Rattler.

 

[chickletteSarge]

Winter must be close. Keep running into snakes. Found this one while taking an evening stroll with my wife. Now this is a Rattlesnake. This is called a Coon Tailed Rattler.

Now that's what I want! I want to go out with my love and take a stroll down the mile long driveway to get the mail! And get a nice lookin rattler too ain't bad either!

 

[Jungleexplorer]

Now that's what I want! I want to go out with my love and take a stroll down the mile long driveway to get the mail! And get a nice lookin rattler too ain't bad either!

Just got to watch out for the sharp end. LOL!

 

[TammyTX]

....Googling "coon tailed rattlesnake".....


Edited: a-ha! AKA/Western Diamondback !!

 

[Jungleexplorer]

....Googling "coon tailed rattlesnake".....


Edited: a-ha! AKA/Western Diamondback !!

You are correct. When I lived in Arizona,everyone called them diamondback rattlers. Here in Texas we call them Coon Tail Rattlers. All the same thing.

 

[TammyTX]

#eek!

ps: I hate when people use #

 

[bnjrob]

Ain't that the truth?