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@BecciD

I've been pondering over your polish and the one with the spiky crest could be an appenzeller, what do you think ~ https://www.backyardchickens.com/newsearch?search=Appenzeller+#

@Yorkshire Coop That's interesting. We got both from the same place, and were told they were the same. (Although after showing the same pictures she said male/ female the other way round! which doesn't fit with what everyone else & my own research says!) I'll have a look.

 

[BecciD]

@Yorkshire Coop This is the only recent picture I could find with tails in.

 

[Yorkshire Coop]

[@=/u/442569/BecciD]@BecciD[/@] I've been pondering over your polish and the one with the spiky crest could be an appenzeller, what do you think ~ https://www.backyardchickens.com/newsearch?search=Appenzeller+#

@Yorkshire Coop That's interesting. We got both from the same place, and were told they were the same. (Although after showing the same pictures she said male/ female the other way round! which doesn't fit with what everyone else & my own research says!) I'll have a look.

@Yorkshire Coop This is the only recent picture I could find with tails in.

Looking at your new pic it does not seem to be an appenzeller and they both look polish to me. Also I think you have two females there, nothing too boy like in their tails. I know I'm a pain but more pics would be great

 

[Yorkshire Coop]

@Rudies Roost

Good to hear you still ride now and then no matter the size of the pony! Yes the expense is a especially if you have to keep them at livery. That's my biggest expense every month with Harry horse. I try not to add up how much he costs each month as he's worth but it would also scare me, never mind the other half! I would have to think hard about another one after him. Or until I get a place and keep him at home

 

[BecciD]

@Yorkshire Coop uh oh! We've just agreed to sell 'him' to someone locally! I don't think he'd mind a hen (it's the Poland specifically he's after) but if he's expecting a boy...! That one was seeing off the cat this morning (from the other side of the fence!) Went right up to the cat all the way round the run until the cat went off! It was the behaviour as much as anything which was making me think male. Did appear to be top of the pecking order at one point (until the Pekin started crowing!) and was intervening in fights between two of the others. (we have 6 birds, at least 3 of which are male) Does any of that help?

 

[Yorkshire Coop]

@Yorkshire Coop
 uh oh! We've just agreed to sell 'him' to someone locally! I don't think he'd mind a hen (it's the Poland specifically he's after) but if he's expecting a boy...! That one was seeing off the cat this morning (from the other side of the fence!) Went right up to the cat all the way round the run until the cat went off! It was the behaviour as much as anything which was making me think male. Did appear to be top of the pecking order at one point (until the Pekin started crowing!) and was intervening in fights between two of the others. (we have 6 birds, at least 3 of which are male) Does any of that help?

Does the "he" have red wattles near the beak? I'm afraid I can't see in the most recent pics. Chasing cats off could be male behaviour but then again I have hens who square up to the cat and the dog! I also have a pullet that comes after me

The Pekin crowing could be suppressing the male behaviour or crowing that it may have done if it were an only cockerel. Polish sure are hard work when it comes to sexing them :/

 

[Rudies Roost]

Does the "he" have red wattles near the beak? I'm afraid I can't see in the most recent pics. Chasing cats off could be male behaviour but then again I have hens who square up to the cat and the dog! I also have a pullet that comes after me

The Pekin crowing could be suppressing the male behaviour or crowing that it may have done if it were an only cockerel. Polish sure are hard work when it comes to sexing them :/

I too have hens that think nothing of chasing off our neighbourhood cats.....my 2 cockerels would not be so bothered, the lazy "b's"!

 

[Yorkshire Coop]

Does the "he" have red wattles near the beak? I'm afraid I can't see in the most recent pics. Chasing cats off could be male behaviour but then again I have hens who square up to the cat and the dog! I also have a pullet that comes after me

The Pekin crowing could be suppressing the male behaviour or crowing that it may have done if it were an only cockerel. Polish sure are hard work when it comes to sexing them :/

I too have hens that think nothing of chasing off our neighbourhood cats.....my 2 cockerels would not be so bothered, the lazy "b's"!

Yep this Tolbunt cockerel I have now is a whimp! The hens chase him and I only have to look at him and he's off He needs to buck his ideas up for spring time

 

[GGBEAR]

All frozen here tonight
@beccid you could always say it's had a sex change lol

 

[Yorkshire Coop]

All frozen here tonight
@beccid you could always say it's had a sex change lol

Do you not sleep either GG? 12.15am

Was frozen here too and a sharp frost this morning, it took ages to clear. Getting pretty misty here now