I'm sorry to hear that. I understand how hard that can be. We had 2 hens over a period of time die from egg bound too. What I have observed from them is that they somehow got dehydrated. I thought that was odd since there is always water out there. I have learned that sometimes other chickens...
They both look female to me. I have had barred rock cockerels and they have usually had a red comb and wattles by 8 weeks old. So, as they said above, if blue is a male, definately a slow maturing one. I am leaning more toward, both pullets. A light colored pullet and a usual dark pullet.
@MysteryChicken is right. We have a heritage barred rock rooster and crossed it with a black australorp hen. This pullet and cockerel were born on March 5th and these crosses both have the white shanks (skin). A neat thing about these crosses is that they are blue barred or black barred. Cream...
These chicks are pure barred rock and were hatched on May 10th and May 11th. Number 1 and Number 3 were hatched on May 10th and the rest on May 11th.
I labeled the chicks 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 in all of the pictures for identification. ( I took several while they were drinking in order to get some...
Which one is a cockerel and which one is a pullet?
Ice: black australorp hen + barred rock cross, born March 13th
Spice: Americauna hen + barred rock cross and is pictured twice on pic 1 and pic 4, born March 21st
Robin: black australorp hen + barred rock cross, born March 16th
Cream: black...