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tai haku

Joined: 17 Apr 2011
Posts: 472

Posted: Wed Aug 20, 14 6:06 pm Post subject: sex my wyandotte pls

so a while ago I made a post in which I expressed my disappointment that our sole Wyandotte, Daphne, was in fact obviously a cock. Here he/she is as at today:

hackles/comb:

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little spurry things on enormous feet.....

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full majesty.....

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dwarfing our welsummers......

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But now that the chooks have started laying we've noticed that someone is laying something rather different to a welsummer egg. spot the odd one out....

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Is it possible that Daphne is a hen? She looks exactly like every photo I can find of a wyandotte cock and I'm struggling to envisage those eggs being welsummer eggs? Chickens are confusing.

Nicky cigreen

Joined: 25 Jun 2007
Posts: 9891
Location: Devon, uk

Posted: Wed Aug 20, 14 6:10 pm Post subject:
any crowing?

Bodger

Joined: 23 May 2006
Posts: 13524

Posted: Wed Aug 20, 14 7:05 pm Post subject:
One thousand percent a cock.

tai haku

Joined: 17 Apr 2011
Posts: 472

Posted: Wed Aug 20, 14 8:04 pm Post subject:

Nicky Colour it green wrote:

any crowing?

yep. but not much.

Bodger wrote:

One thousand percent a cock.

as I thought. So that means a wyandotte cock and one of the three welsummers is laying what appear to be rhea eggs.

Nicky cigreen

Joined: 25 Jun 2007
Posts: 9891
Location: Devon, uk

Posted: Thu Aug 21, 14 8:46 am Post subject:
are those big eggs doubles? you can get some odd shell colouration in the begining try isolating him/her and see if you still get those eggs...

Shan

Joined: 13 Jan 2009
Posts: 9075
Location: South Wales

Posted: Thu Aug 21, 14 9:16 am Post subject:
Definitely a cock!

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