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  1. AinaWGSD

    M/F?? buff Orpington chicks 5 weeks

    Oh, I would have guessed pullets with the caveat that 5 weeks is a little on the early side to be sure unless they're obvious cockerels.
  2. AinaWGSD

    Any nail art enthusiasts out there?

    Got a new nail polish called Watermelon Float today!
  3. AinaWGSD

    The Sullivan Six

    Apollo continues to refuse confinement. I had her out for supervised interactions this morning and that went well. They all dogpiled her when she went over to the corner they were hanging out, but mostly ignored her after that. I put her back in her pen after about an hour or so. This...
  4. AinaWGSD

    4 week old SLW chicks? Suppose to be all pullets??

    4 weeks is too young to tell for sure. Wyandottes tend to pink up early, and aside from slightly redder combs and wattles I don't see any obvious signs of cockerels. Single combs are recessive, so they can pass unseen for generations. Between that, and the supposed fertility issues of rose...
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    The Sullivan Six

    Went out to put Apollo in the coop tonight, only to find the run completely empty! "Surely she couldn't have gotten out of the run!" I thought to myself as I start lowkey panicking. I went into the coop to see if maybe one of the kids had put her in the crate. Empty! Looked a little closer, and...
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    What breed are these solid grey?

    They look like blue wyandottes to me picture from Brinkhaven Acres website
  7. AinaWGSD

    Big Dessert-Themed Hatch-Along

    I'll take on a second egg! How about Ganache for #12
  8. AinaWGSD

    Possible lymphoid leucosis neoplastic tumor + Update: Not injury. Confirmed to be a tumor

    Thank you so much for sharing Tootsie's tumor progression with us. I feel like this thread will be helpfully educational for years to come.
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    The Sullivan Six

    Apollo 😭 I scooped her up from underneath and then we both just kinda looked at each other like "now what?" I realized I couldn't just drop her back over the gate, because dropping 4 feet onto rocks would probably hurt. But I was planning on moving her into a crate in the garage tonight so I...
  10. AinaWGSD

    Pullet or cockerel - Hmong chick!

    Hmm, I say this with zero confidence whatsoever, but I'm leaning cockerel on this one. The wattles are just a little too bright at 4-5 weeks I think.
  11. AinaWGSD

    ToMAYto ToMAHto grow-along

    And the answer is...Rose! We've gotten two eggs out at the farm since we brought Apollo into town. So Rose had to be the one who laid the first egg. Today's egg (pictured next to one of my RIR eggs) was a large!
  12. AinaWGSD

    Broody hen broody breaker??

    Looks like a good setup to me. Generally I try to leave them in the broody buster for 24-48 hours then let them out. If they go back to the nest then back in the buster they go.
  13. AinaWGSD

    The Sullivan Six

    Ma'am! I'm starting to think we should call her Houdini. Apparently Apollo disagrees with the look don't touch method of integration.
  14. AinaWGSD

    What gender is this black sex link?

    Both females. One is bigger than the other because of genetics. If you got them from a hatchery or farm store it's highly likely that they have different parents. Even if they had the exact same parents, not all siblings inherit all the same traits. At 13 weeks the pointed male specific...
  15. AinaWGSD

    Are these Roosters Barred Rock?

    Black sexlink males. They're single barred, barred rock males are double barred (so the white bars on their feathers are much wider).
  16. AinaWGSD

    The Sullivan Six

    Apollo! That's not your pen! She pushed under the chicken wire this morning. By the time husband found her all the other girls were ignoring her. But he checked the camera and said they all jumped her as soon as she got lose.
  17. AinaWGSD

    The Sullivan Six

    Limu was hollering at 530 this morning so I let her out of jail and she went to check out the new girl. Now Apollo is carrying on. My poor neighbors (at least they're still not as loud as the apparently outdoor dogs in the neighborhood)!
  18. AinaWGSD

    Breeding mystic marans

    No. Mystic marans are a hybrid cross between a marans rooster and a barred rock hen so they won't breed true. It's a sex linked cross resulting in barred male chicks and non-barred females. Males could pass barring on to 50% of their offspring regardless of whether the chicks are male or female...
  19. AinaWGSD

    Black sex-links? Maybe? Pullets?

    Disagree, Big Legs looks like a pullet. I don't see any sickle feathers in the tail and the saddle feathers are all broad and round, not skinny and pointy like rooster saddle feathers. The hackle feathers don't look particularly pointy to me either.
  20. AinaWGSD

    My mystery chicks’ gender

    I agree, the only one looking male to me is the barred one with the crest. I think the blue one and the black one are probably pullets. The other barred chick I'm not sure on, but nothing screams male to me at this time.
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