Patridge bantam chicken poorly foot?

[superjules]

Sorry, I'm boring you all again with my chick pics, but it's been a while.

Here he is this week:

 

 

[moomin]

gosh how he has grown!!

 

He is sooo beautiful, I love the way his little red comb and wattles contrast with his blue-grey feathers!!

[Snowy]

Oh he is a little stunner!

[Egluntyne]

He is lovely.

[Egg Lou]

Oh gorgeous!! is this him at 10 weeks?? he is a really stunning chap and grown so quickly!

[Ain't Nobody Here]

He's beautiful . I love his colouring!

[Chickvic]

He is absolutely gorgeous!

[Angels4]

A true "King" of the flock. I wish I could have a Roo.

[oatley]

My - what a handsome chap! Has he started the dancing yet? My children think rooster dancing is the funniest thing!

[Gallina]

He is gorgeous.

 

How are you so sure he is a boy? I thought ten weeks was too early to tell.

[superjules]

Gallina, his wattles started to show at 3 weeks and he's noticably bigger than our other chick, (I'll take some more pics to show you the difference), but also his behaviour is very boyish. He was more upright from an early age and he squared up to the dog from about 6 weeks. He also has started doing that food dropping thing that boys do. When he finds a tasty morsel he drops it and calls the girls over to eat first. And who said chivalry was dead?!

 

I think pekins can be quite precocious, making it a lot easier to see gender differences early on than with some other breeds, such as silkies.