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Male or Female? |
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By: Tstafford Date: March 12, 2018, 7:37 pm |
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Can anyone let me know the best way to find out if my barred |
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rock chicks are male or female? |
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Re: Male or Female? |
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By: Travis Rayner Date: March 13, 2018, 10:03 am |
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Many breeds can be sexed shortly after they hatch. After |
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that... ??? With most chickens it is hard to tell by just |
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looking at them; it is at best just a guessing game. As lippant |
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as it sounds...sometimes you have to wait to see if it crows or |
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lays an egg! :) |
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We had two Delawares from chicks. Within a month one of them |
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looked totally different (more rooster like...we named it |
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Spike). It was larger, comb was bigger and started growing |
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nubbs/spurs. Yep we had us one hen and one rooster. But, with |
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my belief in the crow or egg factor, we waited. It was obvious |
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there was a lot of difference and now the spurs were about 3/8" |
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long and growing. As they reached maturity one of the squatted |
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when I approached her. WHAT? Within a week or so they both |
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started laying. One still looks like a rooster and her spurs |
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are almost an inch long...yet "she" is a great layer. |
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That is why I am a firm believer in waiting on the crow or egg |
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to show up! :) |
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