Washingtonians Come Together! Washington Peeps

[Hinotori]

If it comes from a hatchery, bet it's an EE. Most feed stores only have hatchery birds. There is the rare local feed store that gets from local breeders of quality birds. Ameraucana, araucana, and EEs are the most confused birds out there thanks to hatcheries and what they tell the feed stores.

I cheat with silkies. Partridge is color sexable around 8 weeks or so. No guessing normally. And when I'm wrong, it's because one I thought was male was actually female.

Had one of those last hatch. Didn't know for sure until 14 weeks and no red wing bows and no comb or wattle growth/coloring. It's one of the crossed partridge lines so the females come out odd color first gen and it's normal from 2nd gen on.

 

[Hinotori]

Though I'm in practice at looking at silkie faces for sexing colors.

My SIL, first time owner, had me checking her barred rocks she got from the feed store when I visited last May. She thought the one who hadn't grown in a tail yet was a boy. Just the coloring said it was a girl. Males are lighter because of how the patterning works with the barred gene and it being on the sex chromosome. Two copies makes for thinner barring and lighter looking. Birds are ZZ - male ZW - female

 

[pennyJo1960]

I am good a barred now as had both and got quite good at them after 4 weeks EE need to watch till 6 weeks sometimes 8 did have allot more problems with my ameracauna and of the 11 I raised the only one left is my boy who is now rooster he grew up

 

[Hinotori]

My favorite young EE pullets. At least the back one has half ameraucana blood.

 

[pennyJo1960]

sure does luv the muff and beard are those from your Silky the feet are telling

 

[Hinotori]

Yes. Father was a partridge silkie. Mothers were a hatchery "ameraucana" and a wheaten ameraucana.

 

[pennyJo1960]

thought so but very cute looking kids

 

[Hinotori]

I love the head look on the crosses. I may hatch some black ones later. Ive seen that Snape loves his big girls

 

[pennyJo1960]

Really I have such a fight with this boy I kept he raises peeps I put in
he is great with ladies all of them but he gives me black peeps all of them

 

[Angel Feather]

Roosters


some are from my own flock, or ordered from other breeders with good stock. others are from hatchery stock, and were vaccinated for merricks.

ages 3 months to 6 months, most are well socialized, some pure lap chickens.

pure bred:
-cream legbar out of jil rees line
-blue whaton Ameraucana
-blue red ameraucana
-blue ameraucana
-BBR ameraucana
- lavender ameraucana
- black maran
-black copper maran
-barred cochin
-silver seabright
-silkies bearded. black, blue, splash, buff, black and gold partridge.
- splash sumatra
-silver apenzella spitzhaiben (with a propper forward crest)
-polish
-blue laced red wyandotte


hybrids:
-olive egger (welsummer ameraucana)
-olive egger (penedesenca ameraucana)

-easter egger, crested and feather footed (silkie ameraucana cross) blue, red blue, silver duckwing, black and gold

-crele english banty silkie cross