I'm not even sure how many infertile eggs later I've gotten one to hatch! Catch is it's probably an accidental Polkie
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Moorhead's the ones with black head right? When I was looking for hens I came across a breeder who only breeds the partridges with black heads.Caught a few chicks this evening.
Boys
I think the top one is my wanted splash partridge. Middle is blue partridge. Bottom is a moorhead regular partridge. That blue partridge will be used for breeding probably. He's looking ok so far and doesn't have the moorhead.
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Girls. I may just get rid of any of the moorhead chicks. I don't want them for breeding. It's against standard.
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Moorhead's the ones with black head right? When I was looking for hens I came across a breeder who only breeds the partridges with black heads.
Interesting. I did pick two pullets/hens from this breeder I believe, they're coming from a different state later this month I think it is. I got a buff (or red? What people call each confuses me...) and a funky coloured partridge that she wasn't able to give me a proper colour name (said something along the lines of partridge with blue tones, so kinda guessing it's a Blue partridge?).Yes. Partridge standard in chickens is with red heads. I think there is a specific breed that actually calls for the moorhead.
My BFF girls tidbit w each other, it's really sweet i think.In your experience, do pullets tidbit as well or only cockerels?
My hard-to-sex splash (who still looks the same, so leaning pullet) was tidbitting to the others when I threw down some scratch just now. There are both pullets and cockerels in the pen with “her”.
I’ve never noticed any other pullet/hen of mine tidbit, so now I’m wondering if “she” is just a very girly boy.
This gives me some hope. Although now I’m questioning 2 that I *thought* were girls based on combs starting to grow in bigger. So I bit the bullet and order DNA testing for those two.My BFF girls tidbit w each other, it's really sweet i think.