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[Redwing]

I think that latest pic of them by the house just about seals the deal surely?

[Egluntyne]

No doubt in my mind now. Sorry.

[RosemarysBaby]

Yeah it does seem pretty obvious but ye never know miracles can happen lol Ophelia does seem to be towering over poor Leeloo My other girls ain't laying yet been 2 weeks today since i got them and no sign yet i assume they where 18 weeks when i got them so possibly another 2 weeks and we might get some eggs .

[poultrypaul123]

Here are a few pics of young cockerels...

 

 

Defiantly a boy sorry.

 

Paul

[RosemarysBaby]

Here are a few pics of young cockerels...

 

 

Defiantly a boy sorry.

 

Paul

 

 

One thing i am noticing is tail feathers wise the third picture down of yours seems the feathers are sitting kind of open rather than closed up which i find my "OPHELIA" lol seems to have all time where as all the others don't. It s easier to see on ophelia due to the insessive need to roll in the muck

 

[smithy36]

I am bucking the trend here... i think she is a girl...but i think 19 weeks not 9?! Have you doubled checked the age? I have a white star, and she grew the comb & wattles really quickly, and they are big - also a white star has an upright tail too... she looks like mine! I would have thought that you would have noticed the different noises too if it were a boy! Finally they are a small breed, dainty - so will be smaller than the others.

 

Good luck...

 

 

I have their exact hatch date from the breeder so they are 11 weeks and 2 days old today.

 

There is a definite size difference in the two but still just holding out hoping it's a she.

 

I am not sure what noises the boys make at a young age or indeed atall apart from the obvious crowing.

 

At the moment they still make a very quite peeping noise it is almost inaudible to human ears it is soooooo quiet.

 

This is the size difference as you can see it is quite immense for 2 chicks of the same batch. Then again I am no expert lol but it looks big to me.

Maybe she is just tall for her age

 

 

Oh in that case, I am afraid that looks definitely like a boy! Angelina grew her comb and wattles within a week or so, but at 18 weeks.... the size difference is too big if they are the same age!

[RosemarysBaby]

I am bucking the trend here... i think she is a girl...but i think 19 weeks not 9?! Have you doubled checked the age? I have a white star, and she grew the comb & wattles really quickly, and they are big - also a white star has an upright tail too... she looks like mine! I would have thought that you would have noticed the different noises too if it were a boy! Finally they are a small breed, dainty - so will be smaller than the others.

 

Good luck...

 

 

I have their exact hatch date from the breeder so they are 11 weeks and 2 days old today.

 

There is a definite size difference in the two but still just holding out hoping it's a she.

 

I am not sure what noises the boys make at a young age or indeed atall apart from the obvious crowing.

 

At the moment they still make a very quite peeping noise it is almost inaudible to human ears it is soooooo quiet.

 

This is the size difference as you can see it is quite immense for 2 chicks of the same batch. Then again I am no expert lol but it looks big to me.

Maybe she is just tall for her age

 

 

Oh in that case, I am afraid that looks definitely like a boy! Angelina grew her comb and wattles within a week or so, but at 18 weeks.... the size difference is too big if they are the same age!

 

 

Yeah I was afraid of that aargh lol My sister in law is called Angelina pretty name coincidentally she used to be a ballerina

[RosemarysBaby]

WELL WELL WELL this morning i heard an odd noise and rushed out to check the girls where okay and found nothinG in garden my thought was a buzzard but nope nothing so went back in.

 

A while later heard a noiSe sounded like my nasty neighbours taunting them so i ran out to checK and nothinG so i walked round garden to check things over and MY OPHELIA WAS CROWING HER HEAD OFF

 

SOOOO IN CONCLUSION!!! IT'S A BOY DEFINITELY LOL

 

I HAVE CONTACTED THE BREEDER AND WAITING ON HER TO GET BACK TO ME. I REALLY WOULD LOVE TO KEEP HIM IN FACT THE SECOND HE CROWED I FELL IN LOVE WITH HIM AND NOW I GOTTA SEND HIM AWAY. I JUST HOPE HER OTHER ONE IS A GIRL

 

I WAS TRYING NOT TO GET ATTACHED AND NOW I FEEL LIKE IT'S MY BABY AND I DON'T WANNA LET HIM GO AT LEAST I KNOW HE WILL BE WELL CARED FOR WITH HIS PREVIOUS MUMMY X

[RosemarysBaby]

OH! AND EVERYTIME I TRY TO RECORD HIM CROWING HE SHUTS UP SECOND I SWITCH OFF VIDEO CAMERA HE GIVES THE OCCASIONAL CROW LOL SO FUNNY

[alih]

what a shame - he is certainly a beauty..

[RosemarysBaby]

what a shame - he is certainly a beauty..

 

 

I am a little heartbroken i can hear them peeping in garden the now aswell

[smithy36]

we get attached very quickly dont we!

 

Poor you

[RosemarysBaby]

we get attached very quickly dont we!

 

Poor you

 

The odd thing is i said just 2 days ago i am not truly attached to any the babies are very cute so slightly attached to them at time and the brown ones are so horrible to me i made it a mission to eat chicken for dinner everytime they annoyed me They are veloceraptors they chase me and basically follow my feet in pecking motion everywhere i go bawking in a very low tone which sounds warnful to me I am not sure whether this is them trying to be friendly or if they are just moody crazy chickens hehe

[RosemarysBaby]

Not sure how i will integrate another chicken with them i dont have another run that i can close off from others but i do have another chicken house available bit nervous about that not sure how long the chicken memory is as it is a sibling of the white stars i have now, providing it is a girl she has left mind you knowing my luck it's a boy

[feemcg]

Oh no, what a shame, lovely boy too. My boys have all started crowing around the 12 week mark (apart from big Sandy who had a sex-change and crowed at 29 ). Another trip to Quothquan then? (try that one English omleteers )

[RosemarysBaby]

Oh no, what a shame, lovely boy too. My boys have all started crowing around the 12 week mark (apart from big Sandy who had a sex-change and crowed at 29 ). Another trip to Quothquan then? (try that one English omleteers )

 

 

Well she did say she would come through to me and bring another girl to exchange with him if it came to that x just waiting for word back from her now! Hope it's soon before he REALLY finds his voice i got such a fright lol i though buzzard was attacking them initially I read alot of pages on crowing when i ws still in doubt although strongly felt he was a he and alot of people said theres started around 12 weeks but most books and information pages tell you about 5 months old and then they start mating around 7 mths hard to know which advice is correct when so many books and informative pages are contradicting each other

[RosemarysBaby]

Oh! it was sooo sweet too to hear him crowing i loved it pity i can't keep him he is gorgeous x poor sandy lol erm i know stupid question but it wasn't laying eggs prior to that was it? if so that is miracle chicken x

[feemcg]

No, he wasn't laying. I sexed him as a girl at a few weeks old and he was happily living with the other hens, although would never go in an eglu or cube, apart from when he was locked in as chick.....he slept on the run floor. He had a tiny comb and wattles, until they suddenly sprouted at 24 weeks, as did some droopy saddle feathers and I started having doubts. He was still making girly noises.....and not showing any 'interest' in the other girls.......until one day at 29 weeks he was standing beside me in the garden and let out this huge, loud crow. I nearly wet myself and all the other chooks froze . I think some Buff Orps can be very slow developers......he certainly was. I heard he was very tasty too.

[RosemarysBaby]

No, he wasn't laying. I sexed him as a girl at a few weeks old and he was happily living with the other hens, although would never go in an eglu or cube, apart from when he was locked in as chick.....he slept on the run floor. He had a tiny comb and wattles, until they suddenly sprouted at 24 weeks, as did some droopy saddle feathers and I started having doubts. He was still making girly noises.....and not showing any 'interest' in the other girls.......until one day at 29 weeks he was standing beside me in the garden and let out this huge, loud crow. I nearly wet myself and all the other chooks froze . I think some Buff Orps can be very slow developers......he certainly was. I heard he was very tasty too.

 

 

at nearly wetting yourself awww ye didn't send him to the pot awwww I don't think i could bear to do that although so far i haven't been put off eating chicken, i couln't eat my own

[feemcg]

Fraid so.....he was a big boy and my ex was working with a farmer that took him. Most of my other boys have gone up to Wanlockhead (highest village in Scotland) and lived up on the hills there until they've been dinner.....the girl that takes them's husband is a game-keeper and there are no foxes up there.

[RosemarysBaby]

I am sure you all know the story i sent my crowing cockerel back to farm and as he was leaving my girl started crowing and on closer inspection and researching turns out girls can crow!

 

I have been listening to a few on youtube which are already laying eggs so definitely girls. K Point is i got some pics from the farm from the lady who owns it and i noticed my so called other cockerel still looks like a girl holding out to see if she lays any eggs only problem is if she crowed then will she keep it up apparently in abscence of cockerel dominant hens can and will crow apparently. She still has her leg ring on so she can find her amongst the others x

 

Does anyone else have or had this problem with a crowing hen or in particular a white star and if so has it stopped in time?

 

Also if anyone else has a white star do you know how many weeks approx they start laying?

 

I hope i can pick her back up just worried my neighbours on one side would complain out of spite.............even though their son and several car loads of friends party in street with music booming from their boot which they vamped up with giant speakers.

 

anyway picture 1 is leeloo (blue leg ring) whom i am still sure is a girl even though i heard that enormous crow and second is the known boy Mr.Turtle

 

[tidygirlsuk]

Wow if your first is a girl there isn't a lot of difference between them , is there !? How old are they now ? my bluebelle and amber star are 24 and a bit weeks and are not laying yet and my 23 week light sussex bantam isn't laying yet either.

[ali-s]

RB, Lily my whitestar has wattles just like the chicken in the second picture, her comb is the same size but flops over to one side. I think the chicken in the first picture is female. Lily was quite late to start laying.

 

I have been outside to try and get a photo of Lily so you can compare but a couple eurofighters (i think) are buzzing the house before they land, the chickens are getting spooked. I will try later.

[ali-s]

Here is Lily.

 

 

 

 

 

I can post a picture of her tail if you think that will help.