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[JordanFamily]

I agree all hens but what do I know. Heres a pic of my rooster and then a pic of some of my hens. See how he has long thin feathers coming down the sides all over his head like a 80's Rock Star....

 

[obe10]

they are all hens

 

[stephys_fluffybutts]

she said they are 4 1/2 months old. Allot of them dont even have all their adult feathers
So the first thing everybody is gonna say is hens.
The picture of the first one is a hen. The others more or less look like roosters. For the exception of the wc blue, I can atleast say that I am not quite sure about that one.

For me I can tell. I don't breed but I have been around enough and enough breeders to understand.

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[ve]

Polish are fast maturing breed and roos at 4 1/2 mo will be crowing

 

[becky3086]

I have never noticed my Polish to be fast maturing except my standard splash Polish. My standard buff laced, bantam buff laced, standard blue,and silver laced have all been slow to mature .

 

[FluffyColor]

#1 is a roo.
#2 is a roo.
#3 is a hen.
#4 looks like a hen but im not sure

 

[19hhbelgian]

Hmmm... Interesting. So many different opinions on this! Here's what I say:

#1: Hen for sure

#2: I'm going with hen
#3:First thing I thought was roo. Looks like it might have some pointy saddle feathers just starting back there, but the pic is kind of blurry. Also, comb is BIG, and face is red.
#4: I'm on the fence about... Looks like some longer tail feathers coming in, and large red comb, but no pointy saddle feathers from the looks of it, so

I'm leaning towards roo, but

I'm wrong!

My polish have not been overly quick to develop. I had 3 banty splash polish that were 2 months old when I got them... All looked like pullets. When I decided to sell them to make more room for breeding stock, I knew for sure 1 was a roo, and was totally on the fence with the other 2. At that point they were about 3.5-4 months old. My current bantam roo is 6 months old, and has really just begun to get all those gorgeous long saddle feathers and the sickle feathers have really shot up lately. BUT, he was crowing at 5 months.

 

[Rosecomb-Ryan]

Those are ALL HENS.

 

[becky3086]

LOL, you are going to have to keep us updated so we can find out who was right on this one.

 

[Atlchick]

Will do! We'll see what develops!!