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That is so precious! Congrats. I'm hoping to use broodies only next year for chicks. I've got one now that is on 20 eggs though she started with 25. I was taking a few at a time because she was rotating them out and that has delayed development with some. She crunched an egg the other day and although about the 22nd is hatch day it was only about a full week developed.
 
Some breeds are like that:) Some folks say they can tell by which chicks have combs within days of hatch but my WL and BO are hard to tell for me since they all have combs at days old! I can usually tell by 3 or 4 weeks when the boys' start to turn redder than girls. I have no idea on SFH.
 
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Some breeds are like that:) Some folks say they can tell by which chicks have combs within days of hatch but my WL and BO are hard to tell for me since they all have combs at days old! I can usually tell by 3 or 4 weeks when the boys' start to turn redder than girls. I have no idea on SFH.
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I'm not talking about combs, I'm talking about crests. The little "bridal veil" feathers some breeds have on their heads.
 
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Even going by the crests it is best to see how they are when the crests actually come in more. Even at weeks old the comb on crested breeds can sometimes tell you male/female before the crests will. As chicks I didn't think these guys were going to have much crests at all.
 
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ok, so the SF people explained it to me. FYI, a female crested SF will barely show any comb growth for a while. It will stay kind of flat. The crested boy will still have slower comb growth than a non-crested one, but if you see comb development at all in a chick under a month old, it will usually be a boy. Ugh, so I've been 'had'. I wonder if they knew they were giving me a boy (or two)! They seemed like such a nice couple.....and to think, I gave them 100% pullets in trade! That's what happens when you are such a trusting, sweet person like myself! And, not knowing anything about SF, I got taken advantage of.
 
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the earlier pic was mainly of the pullet. In the forefront here you can see the spiked crests. As chicks the males more or less had rectangular mohawks and the females just sort of had a poof ball;-)
 
This was posted on another thread. Thought it was cute.

Fred was in the fertilized egg business. He had about a hundred young hens,' and ten roosters to fertilize the eggs.

He kept records, and any rooster not performing went into the soup pot and was replaced.

This took a lot of time, so he bought some tiny bells and attached them to his roosters.

Each bell had a different tone, so he could tell from a distance, which rooster was performing.

Now, he could sit on the porch and fill out an efficiency report by just listening to the bells.

Fred's favorite rooster, old Butch, was a very fine specimen, but this morning he noticed old Butch's bell hadn't rung at all!

When he went to investigate, he saw the other roosters were busy chasing pullets, bells-a-ringing, but the pullets, hearing the roosters coming, would run for cover.

To Fred's amazement, old Butch had his bell in his beak, so it couldn't ring. He'd sneak up on a pullet, do his job and walk on to the next one.

Fred was so proud of old Butch, he entered him in the Local Farm Show and he became an overnight sensation among the judges.

The result was the judges not only awarded old Butch the "No Bell Peace Prize," but they also awarded him the "Pulletsurprise" as well
 
Cknldy said:
That is so precious! Congrats. I'm hoping to use broodies only next year for chicks. I've got one now that is on 20 eggs though she started with 25. I was taking a few at a time because she was rotating them out and that has delayed development with some. She crunched an egg the other day and although about the 22nd is hatch day it was only about a full week developed.
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That's why I only have about 7 under my Sumatra. I set up a second nest box, and the hens took FOREVER to use it - they really wanted the one the broody hen was already in. That's why I had to mark them, so I knew which ones to take. But eventually they did, so I stopped worrying about extra eggs in her nest. Yesterday when she got out to eat, there were still only 7 eggs in her nest - exactly how many I had marked - and four eggs in the other nest from the other hens.

I'm just surprised she is being such a good mommy with them. The bad thing is, her pen is chain-link fencing, so the babies will easily be able to get out. I have some extra poultry wire, but haven't had time to get it set up for her.
 

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