The Poultry Keeper

aliceb · Posted: Fri Jun 24, 2005 8:39 am Post subject:

oh all right then, but the rest of you had better watch out as I may start partaking in a little hijaking of my own................

Knobby · Posted: Fri Jun 24, 2005 8:46 am Post subject:

Go for it Girl !!! Very Happy

aliceb · Posted: Fri Jun 24, 2005 8:47 am Post subject:

mornin Knobby, how are you this fine morning, is it persisting it down with you yet?

Knobby · Posted: Fri Jun 24, 2005 8:59 am Post subject:

Yep....When I left home if was lovely & sunny...when i get to work its dark and thunndering & lightning !!!

aliceb · Posted: Fri Jun 24, 2005 9:06 am Post subject:

think i might hide out in the office today

aliceb · Posted: Thu Jun 30, 2005 8:42 am Post subject:

thought i'd give you a chicky update. They're 4 weeks old today and haven't they grown! pretty sure now that the blue is a cock (bummer!). It would be the prettiest, sorry most handsome, and friendliest that turns out to be a cock. We may be requiring a new home in the not too dim and distant so any takers? Anyway he/ she's fine where he is for now so on with the photos.

Knobby · Posted: Thu Jun 30, 2005 8:48 am Post subject:

He/she does look like it will be a nice Bird !! Dont rush to get rid of him tho'....youve still got at least 10 weeks yet !! Very Happy

aliceb · Posted: Thu Jun 30, 2005 8:51 am Post subject:

i know that he won't start crowing yet so he's safe for now, but unfortunatly i can't have a cockeral.

Deb_Moderator · Joined: 13 Apr 2005 Posts: 3661

Is it the pics, because to me the blue one's comb looks smaller than the white one's. Confused

They look spectacular to me. If you can get a pic on the inside of the fence of them....side head shots, we may be able to tell if he/she is indeed a he.

aliceb · Posted: Thu Jun 30, 2005 2:58 pm Post subject:

I've been reading the threads about sexing both on here and pp. the chicks were sexed when i got them and i was told then the blue was probably a cock as a vet had been and bought some off her earlier that day and sexed them for her. It's certainly a lot slower feathering up than the other four especially around the neck/ hackles sort of area. PLease dont tell me that the was white now turning splash is a cock as she looks very similar to the three blacks.

Deb_Moderator · Joined: 13 Apr 2005 Posts: 3661

Ok...she is not. Smile

aliceb · Posted: Fri Jul 01, 2005 8:12 am Post subject:

deb, think i might have to eat my words, had a really good look at them last night and i think i've got 3 cocks! nooooooooooo! the blue, the splash and one of the blacks! bugger bugger bugger bugger (stamps foot hard!)!!!!! can the combs develop at different rates or do they all tend to start at the same time? i know i'm clutching at straws here. else, does anyone want any jersey giant cocks?? (steady george!)

CP · Posted: Fri Jul 01, 2005 9:45 am Post subject:

I sympathize alice - that's the only downside of hatching eggs.

Out of 13, I think we have 9 cockerels & only 4 hens!!!! Damn! Anyone want either an Old Cotswold Legbar bantam cock, or a Nankin cock?

Deb_Moderator · Joined: 13 Apr 2005 Posts: 3661

aliceb · Posted: Fri Jul 01, 2005 2:25 pm Post subject:

deb, i repeat, bugger bugger bugger, as they are all the same breed, again i repeat, does anyone want a jersey giant cockeral?!?!?! Sad