Allotment Gardening Advice Help Chat
Poultry and Pets => The Hen House => Topic started by: charlystyles on August 23, 2011, 11:40
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I've successfully hatched 5 Polish Bantams, but now I'm struggling to tell who's what! (all the ways of doing this seem to be when they're a few days old, and mine ar now 10 weeks! Also, just to confuse things, I have 3 frizzles and two smooth.
Would anyone mind lookign at the photos and seeing whether you think they're male or female?
I'll post two topics, as it's struggling to upload 4 photos.
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...and two more photos...
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...and finally Willy Wonka (due to his beak deformation)...
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Hi, I'm not going to be much help here but I have 2 Polish, both female that I got at 7 weeks. the fearthers on their head were very floppy and covering a lot of the face even at that early age, so it looks as though you have 2 of each, I could be well wrong here but the second photo looks more male as the head feathers are very different to what my girls looked like.
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That's with regard to the Frizzles I have?
or you think both the smooth are feamles too? (There's 5 chicks/photos, and you said you guessed two of each - which makes 4).
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I've been googling and it seems the males have spiky head feathers, that stick up, females have more of a helmet. It is really difficult to sex polish chicks, so if what I read is ight it looks like you have two females and 3 males. Hopefully someone in the know will come along and help.
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this is your only (Pullet) Hen Willy Wonka
my husband use to raise Polands...