Tolbunt Polish

[sonew123]

They are about to get too big to fit under now.

Now come on!!! You have to eneter that for picture of the week!!!

 

[welasharon]

I wish they were scattered around her more evenly!

 

[Illia]

Im thinking pullet...the ones that have had perfect roundness to their crests like that have been pullets...All other miss shapened white crests have been roos

Looks like a cockerel to me. I personally never judge by crest shape or size, however those nostrils look non-cavernous to me, a common thing in Tolbunts from certain lines. I don't know how it works but my boy with non-cavernous nostrils always gives boys with such trait, girls with good cavernous nostrils. Great for sexing chicks at birth.



LOVE the Silkie mom pic!

 

[sonew123]

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Looks like a cockerel to me. I personally never judge by crest shape or size, however those nostrils look non-cavernous to me, a common thing in Tolbunts from certain lines. I don't know how it works but my boy with non-cavernous nostrils always gives boys with such trait, girls with good cavernous nostrils. Great for sexing chicks at birth.



LOVE the Silkie mom pic!

Whatever works for you Well see whose right when they grow up It was dead on for me when I hatched them and will continue to use this method as a guess only...I certainly wouldn't bet $ on either method because neither of us are experts. Either way, all mine stay until sex is verified the correct way.

 

[seminolewind]

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Welasharon, That's one of the cutest pics I've seen! And I like them all to one side-makes it look natural, not setup.

Dancing Hen, your chicks are sooo cute----and so are mine!

 

[welasharon]

THanks. They are growing so fast. I had a scare this weekend though. One started walking on his hocks and falling to the right side when he tried to walk. I thought maybe he hit his head and I would watch him. The next day another started. I started giving them liquid vitamins and crushed B complex on their food. By the next morning the second one had recovered to the point I no longer knew which one it was. The first one is taking longer but is better each day. Today his foot uncurled finally. What a scare. I am feeding medicated chick starter and wasn't aware this could happen.

It's gonna look rather funny as they get bigger....trying to fit in that pot.
sharon

 

[Illia]

Whatever works for you

Well see whose right when they grow up

It was dead on for me when I hatched them and will continue to use this method as a guess only...I certainly wouldn't bet $ on either method because neither of us are experts. Either way, all mine stay until sex is verified the correct way.

Neither me, just sayin' if that really is a non-cavernous nostril I'd vote boy, but that's only if, and I can't tell too fully well from here but it does look like mine.

 

[eeyore75]

well I've tried to do this a few times in the last few days and my post keeps disapearing before I can sumit it.....

we'll try again.....
I don't have cute pics of chicks yet- have another week and a half before they start hatching, and my adults haven't been moved from Mom's yet, and since she live an hour and a half from me- I only get out there every few weeks at best. So this are pics I took on Easter- it was windy- so they are not great pics. I also have to go over their type & faults still- my pied one from a pic looks like she has bad toes- another pic they look fine..... will go over them this Sat when I am out there.....

These are the Tolbunt hens from Jim parker eggs (their color is not the best- lighting in some pics not helping that to show what they are):



These pics are of my "pied red w/ black" one Also from Jim Parker eggs:



These are my favorite 2 pics (one shows the roo in with them he is a GL split to Green Acres Tolbunt), the other shows the dark ones' coloring better:



This is the blue tolbunt splash hen (also from Jim Parker eggs) I moved out of their pen that day to the mixed color flock- mon gives them a wet mash that she got her face dirty from:



These are pics of the GL split to Tolbunt pen, the bearded roo is in this pen (GL roo over Green Acre Tolbunt hens), the non bearded roo is in with my Tolbunt hens:

 

[Illia]

Yep, watch those beards. You'll want either non-bearded or fully bearded. Personally I like 'em full and true breeding.

Love the dark (practically Cornish) colored Jim Parker gals as well as the red pied one. Very pretty!

The gold splits below, are those their actual tails or did they get pulled?


So help me out here, the dark Jim Parker girls, is that a different GL boy with them than the splits or the same? It's hard to tell for me because the GL split male below appears to have a well spanned tail in one shot, a pinched in the other.

 

[eeyore75]

Yep, watch those beards. You'll want either non-bearded or fully bearded. Personally I like 'em full and true breeding.

Love the dark (practically Cornish) colored Jim Parker gals as well as the red pied one. Very pretty!

The gold splits below, are those their actual tails or did they get pulled?


So help me out here, the dark Jim Parker girls, is that a different GL boy with them than the splits or the same? It's hard to tell for me because the GL split male below appears to have a well spanned tail in one shot, a pinched in the other.

It's mostly the wind issue that day- where the tails are concerned. Some of the deleted pics were during strong blasts that had them really weird. I'm hoping the pics and wind are better this weekend. There were 2 GL split roos in my split batch- the clean face one is in with the Tolbunts, the bearded one is with their sisters. Watching them I tink I like the bearded one a little better typewise...... they are both testy over their girls now that they are the only roos in each pen. They do NOT want you near their girrls! You have to keep picking them up to make them settle down.