Wisconsin "Cheeseheads"

[Hens and Roos]

BF4M my heart sunk when I read what happen to your sons friend. Poor kids. I know how he feels, I broke 3 bones ( the radius bones and 2 in the elbow)in my arm when I was 5 by swinging off and landing wrong.

Finally charged the batteries to the camera enought to take a few pics. So here is the Blue Andalusian I think may or may not be a boy. So what do you guys think?
I originally named her Henrietta, I guess if she is not a she , he can be Henry lol

Head shot


Here she is by some RIR's that are deffinitly Roos.

How old is the Andalusian chick? By 4 weeks you can start seeing the boys getting bigger combs, by 8 weeks you pretty much know who is who! Pretty coloring.

 

[Apyl]

How old is the Andalusian chick? By 4 weeks you can start seeing the boys getting bigger combs, by 8 weeks you pretty much know who is who! Pretty coloring.

The chick is 2 days from being 3 weeks old.

 

[Hens and Roos]

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The chick is 2 days from being 3 weeks old.

Is the comb starting to pink up?

 

[Apyl]

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Is the comb starting to pink up?

It looks yellow right now.

 

[Hens and Roos]

It looks yellow right now.

I would give it another week or two and see what develops.

 

[Apyl]

A little off topic but does anyone else hunt Morels? This weather makes me want to go out but I know we still have a few weeks at least.

 

[Celtic Chick]

How old is the Andalusian chick? By 4 weeks you can start seeing the boys getting bigger combs, by 8 weeks you pretty much know who is who! Pretty coloring.

H&R, I feel like an idiot because Mooses babies are a few days shy of being 8 weeks old & I'm still not too sure who is what. Do the females have absolutely no pinkness to their combs at that age? Sometimes I look at them & their combs look all yellow, then other times I can see pink in them, depending on the light outside. I think the ones with the rose combs really throw me. I have 3 black ones and one buff with the rose combs and they all look kinda pinkish. 2 of those I am pretty darn sure are boys. Theirs pinked up faster, it seemed. I just hope they aren't all roos, or Terri will be having even more of those black & white chickens that she likes so much.

Well, better get back to chopping up carrots, potatoes & cabbage for dinner. The corned beef is smelling just delish!

 

[Hens and Roos]

H&R, I feel like an idiot because Mooses babies are a few days shy of being 8 weeks old & I'm still not too sure who is what. Do the females have absolutely no pinkness to their combs at that age? Sometimes I look at them & their combs look all yellow, then other times I can see pink in them, depending on the light outside. I think the ones with the rose combs really throw me. I have 3 black ones and one buff with the rose combs and they all look kinda pinkish. 2 of those I am pretty darn sure are boys. Theirs pinked up faster, it seemed. I just hope they aren't all roos, or Terri will be having even more of those black & white chickens that she likes so much.

Well, better get back to chopping up carrots, potatoes & cabbage for dinner. The corned beef is smelling just delish!

by 8 weeks with the Andalusian chicks the boys are very telling and the girls are usually just starting to pink up. It really depends on the breed of chicken, the Wellies we go by the color of the feathering on the chest. Post a pic of them and maybe we can help you out- but pictures are so hard sometime. we also are having corned beef, cabbage and such- yummy!

 

[bigzio]

Evening Of The Irish TO All.... Welcome tomboy....kee is one of the family here. She is from Milwaukee and prolly your best link for help. She's one of the best here, just busy like most here.

Good luck with the trip Doc....

Yep, morals are spring diet for quite a few on here....to early here yet.

Hens are laying well....15 eggs today....the number keeps improving....I love giving the women a rest during winter. They are rejuvinated and singing...as well as laying the way nature ment.

bigz

 

[kristip]

What a great day! We added the 8 foot extension to the run and it was a lot of work, but we got almost all of it done. Need to shovel seem more dirt tomorrow and think about painting but it looks great.

Tomorrow we might move birds around then.
Feeling a sense of accomplishment