What age do OEGB cockerels get their full colours?

[JaeG]

Here's my handsome boy at 19 weeks. He does think rather a lot of himself but he still tolerates me and the kids picking him up.

 

[Sapphire Sebright]

Here's my handsome boy at 19 weeks. He does think rather a lot of himself but he still tolerates me and the kids picking him up.

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He is so handsome. It's also like looking at Pin again.
Roosters tend to think the most of themselves, don't they? Especially bantams. It's like watching a colored cotton ball try to dominate -- absolutely hysterical.

 

[Sapphire Sebright]

He is so handsome. It's also like looking at Pin again.
Roosters tend to think the most of themselves, don't they? Especially bantams. It's like watching a colored cotton ball try to dominate -- absolutely hysterical.

Considering the fact that I wrote this five minutes after being woken up by a low blood sugar, I'm surprised that it came out at all coherent.

 

[JaeG]

Considering the fact that I wrote this five minutes after being woken up by a low blood sugar, I'm surprised that it came out at all coherent.

It did and you are so right. They are so full of their own self importance (until one of our big girls reminds him to pull his head in). He's been very good so far and has won over a few of our other bantam hens, and he's protective of his sister (or half sister - they must've had different daddies) - she's such a sweetie she doesn't seem to understand about fighting back when one of the others tries to spar with her. She never even used to play fight with Fox when they were little.

 

[Sapphire Sebright]

It did and you are so right. They are so full of their own self importance (until one of our big girls reminds him to pull his head in). He's been very good so far and has won over a few of our other bantam hens, and he's protective of his sister (or half sister - they must've had different daddies) - she's such a sweetie she doesn't seem to understand about fighting back when one of the others tries to spar with her. She never even used to play fight with Fox when they were little.

Aw, that's so sweet!
One of my cockerels is very protective, though in a different way, of one of my hens -- Zapraska and Poppy, respectively -- and follows her everywhere! He's a little gentleman, especially now that he's into his second year and is getting past the "raging hormone" stage of life.
Here he is:

And here's his "true love," Poppy, who's a lot more nervous than she looks:

I really need to see if I can hatch an egg from her... get a cute little hybrid from the two of them.
A Sapphire Gem/Gold OEGB chick... what would that look like, I wonder?
Sorry about the long post. It ran away from me! Just like Zapraska tries to!

 

[Chookwagn]

Heres my little pair of cuties....
they will happily let me pick them up and touch them..... yet my Ancona chicks the same age wont come near me

THis is a pic of him last night coming to say hello while i was collecting eggs