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[Falkor]

Hi

 

Gin is 18 weeks old and I change my mine daily. Today I think she is a he.

 

What do you reckon?

 

 

 

 

 

My reasons for thinking she is a he are:

walks alot more upright than the other two and chest seems higher

Legs are grey rather than pink like the other two, also seem thicker

neck feathers could be considered pointy/round

 

I know at 18 weeks that it might be a little early to tell but I want to introduce a couple of hybrids (eggs!) to my flock so if Gin is for the table I will make it three new rather than two.

 

Thanks in advance for your expertise!

 

Em

edited for pic size, whoops

Edited March 14, 2009 by Guest

[Plum]

From someone who knows nothing, I would say she

[Scramble]

From someone who knows nothing, I would say she

ditto

[cluckbok]

Looks like a "Lady" to me aswell. She looks very elegant!

[Falkor]

 

Close up of her head with pointy/round feathers..........

 

I HOPE she is a girl, she is gorgeous well apart from her messy bum but what does a girl expect when she dunks it in a bucket of mud!

 

Sounds promising!!

[Egluntyne]

I'd say 'she' too.

 

I would expect to see far more face furniture on an 18 week cockerel.

 

Also the stance and legs look girly.

 

The hackle feathers look rounded at the ends too.

 

You will know for definite when s/he lays an egg or crows.

[chelsea]

Im in the minority but I think male ......sorry.

 

The close up of the face decided it for me.....I know it sounds stupid but he/she looks very "boyish" in the face....also quite long legs.

 

just to add - grey legs doesnt mean its not female - my splash cochin has grey legs and she's all woman

[Ms Marple]

I reckon 'she'.

We have a daisybelle called George Harrison - yes I know the name does not help!! We were getting to think she was a he as she had characteristics very similar to your description.No face furniture(thanks Egluntine!) and although, the same age as our other two, did not lay until a full 12 weeks after the other two started.

[Falkor]

Sorry to revive this thread but I am back to thinking that Gin is a BOY

 

i left the Eglu door open last night so they were in the run early this morning and GIN woke me up. She was not cockadoodle doing but I think she is practising. I have NEVER heard the chooks from inside the house before

 

Also when they are let out of the run to free range Stella and OSH are first out and GIn hangs back. Then Gin zooms out of the run with her/his head low chasing the other two. Gin is also often seen jumping onto the back of OSH. This has been happening for the last three weeks or so.

 

All three are the same age, about 25 weeks and only Gin has any mentionable face furniture. Her tail is alot more upright and her neck feathers do seen pointy.

 

I will try for better new pics of Gin and post them to see what you think but I have spoken to the breeder today and told her the above and she says Cockeral

 

Gin is the skittiest of the three but I do LOVE her. I have had this naggin feeling since they were about fifteen weeks. Even OH says she/he looks completely different to the other two. Stella and OSH are just balls of feathers on little feet that stick out the bottom but GIN holds herself much more upright and struts.......

 

These were taken two weekends ago: (rubbish pics, will try for better tomorrow)

 

Comb and wattles are bigger and redder than this now.

[Egluntyne]

You might be right. We need pics showing the legs and a decent side view.

[Falkor]

That is my project for tomorrow

[BeckyBoo]

Hmmmm, she still looks very undecorated in the facial department to me. I've got boys of varying ages and they are markedly different to the girls. That said I have an Orpington that I STILL can't decide on, and he/she is easily 30 odd weeks, I won't know for sure until I move Scruff on then wait for the cockadoodledooooooo!!

 

BeckyBoo

[Falkor]

 

this is GIN right now.

 

The pics before were last weekend, not two weekends ago

[Falkor]

Her breeder has just had a lookie loo at all my Gin pics and she says Hen....thinks the noises are poss practice egg announcing or maybe just "LET ME OUT OF THE RUN" shouts.

 

Well I have shut the Eglu door tonight for the first time in ages to see if that stops some of the noise.

[Plum]

She looks like a girl but jumping on the others sound bad. Fingers crossed for you.

[redfrock]

She looks like a girl but jumping on the others sound bad. Fingers crossed for you.

 

Not always! Bron was from my first 4 hens and used to regularly tread the others and yell like a banshee. She was definitely a girl though because she laid the biggest white eggs going! We thought her behaviour was quite normal until she passed away this winter and they had a cabinet reshuffle. None of the others behave like her. In fact the pecking order is much more relaxed. I think she must have been part-cockerel! (actually we now do think she was a sex change chook because of the way she behaved)

[Egluntyne]

I'm still saying girl. That isn't an overabundance of facial tranklements for a 25 weekish hen.

 

Can you show a close up of his/her hackle feathers and a pic of the legs?

[LJ's Chooks]

I think Girl.... we have an araucana that has similar tendencies... she hangs back in the cube run til the other girls find where the snails and worms are hiding and then she legs it and scoops the decent stuff!!!

 

I hope she's a girl.... either way s/he is far too gorgeous for the table!!!!!

[Daphne]

I'm useless at sexing birds (Gin's head looks like a girl to me, but I'm a bit less sure about the tail development!) but just to say ignore the leg colour (all splash orps have grey legs). One of my female orps is treading another girl - its all about showing them who's boss. Also, remember the jubilee will be smaller.

[cordelia]

my cream legbar, has an upright tail....was late getting any wattles etc like yours, and positively crows.....but now at about 39 weeks, she is laying...but still almost crows.... yours does look girly to me

[Falkor]

I am back to girl again too

 

I think the noises yesterday were just objections to not being let out of the run early enough

 

It seems to be only the jubilee that is being pounced on and we always thought her top chook so matbe we are having a reshuffle.

 

SO glad we are all thinking girl as I don`t think I could bring myself to eat her, she is too pretty

[The Dogmother]

Definitely a girl, one of mine prefers girls too

[esta]

Heyy ,

 

If its a he then it will ha long legs a bigger comb as it grows up and then as it progressivy gets older it will make a wierd cluck sometimes then starts crowing I've had alot of experience for example having 3 cockerals on my plate lol you may have to wiat a little longer to be able to be certain

 

esta x

[Ms Marple]

I too still think girl. They are all lovely too!!

[Falkor]

Boys don`t crouch do they?

 

Gin is crouching for EVERYone, me, the other two chooks and next doors Cat!?