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What sort of age are cocks when they start to crow?
I hatched 5 chicks (well, my little pekin Mavis did) back in Jun. 2 x cuckoo maran, 2 x marsh daisy and an araucuna. They are now about 16 weeks old and I still can't tell what's what! The marsh daisys are pullets - pretty confident about that. The marans look like one of each - although no spurs and although they occasionally square up to one another, no real aggression (if anything - the one we think is a girl is more feisty) No sign of aggression to or from Gregory - my pekin cockerel - either.
As for the araucuna - from the cutest day old to the ugliest chick I've ever seen! Feathering makes me think it's a boy, but no spurs, small comb (but I guess rose combs are) and the scarediest bird I've ever come across (it sometimes seems to scare itself with its own feet! - good job there's not a mirror in the run!
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Resigned to the fact that I might not know for sure until one of them crows.
What sort of age are cocks when they start to crow?
I hatched 5 chicks (well, my little pekin Mavis did) back in Jun. 2 x cuckoo maran, 2 x marsh daisy and an araucuna. They are now about 16 weeks old and I still can't tell what's what! The marsh daisys are pullets - pretty confident about that. The marans look like one of each - although no spurs and although they occasionally square up to one another, no real aggression (if anything - the one we think is a girl is more feisty) No sign of aggression to or from Gregory - my pekin cockerel - either.
As for the araucuna - from the cutest day old to the ugliest chick I've ever seen! Feathering makes me think it's a boy, but no spurs, small comb (but I guess rose combs are) and the scarediest bird I've ever come across (it sometimes seems to scare itself with its own feet! - good job there's not a mirror in the run!
)Resigned to the fact that I might not know for sure until one of them crows.
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