Hmmmm....4th and final female has a definite roo-looking head spot to me. But I am not the expert.
I knew you were just leading us along with those funny spooky and snowy pictures. You're such a ham!
CF dropping eggs in Kentucky (egg sexing)
Thought you'd like that! Bright Blue Leg Identifier Kit Courtesy of Commander Moxon!! That's BBLIKCCM(BIBLICOM)if you like jargony acronyms.!!
And thanks for the patience, ALL!
I thought the same thing. Also the yellow around the beak (cheek spots) but the feathers are coming in female -I think...
Placing bet:
#1 Roo
#2 pullet
#3 pullet
#4 Roo
That's my guess. I think it's fun to guess!!
Sure glad you got the camera figured out.. !!!
The spooky sexing said it would be:
#1 pullet
#2 roo
#3 pullet
#4 pullet
but #4 looks reeally roo-ey except for the feathering. #s1 and 4 have head spots.
YEA i can see those cute little chicks nice bunch you got there Grow
Uh-Oh, I think I am in love again
No chicks, no chicks -- will power fading, thinking I should go for chocolate again, maybe that will help....
I have no idea on who is what, but definitely curious on the outcomes
Cheryl ~ Pea
Well, Harmony's leg thingy and the spooky thingy were in agreement, but---neither do I have any idea whether they're right. If I did the spooky thing and IT'S right and if I did Harmony's thing and IT'S right, then we've proved that we'll need to prove them both on more than 4 eggs. Oh, well. I'll post more when I have it.
I think it's so fun anyway! I guess I like to gamble or something.. cause even with no experience.. I love guessing...
Update guys!! ZeeZ wins!!
Experiment proved definitively that nothing was proved -lolol. The two roos -AKA roo by both techniques and occasionally female by the flip method are both female. They both had yellow cheek spots. The two which were female by both counts and got feathers first -were male. Both grew out with barring from their BR parentage. One had a bad habit of picking on birds bigger than he and was found pecked to death about 2 mos back. I am assuming he was male as behavior and other earlier hatches indicate that the males end up barred....
So I ended up with 75% failure on spooky egg sexing, 87.5% failure rate on chick flipping, and 100% failure rate on feathering. Overall an impressive failure rate. Need to try this with bigger, more successful hatches.