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Java how old is that dark one? I'm almost positive it's a pullet!  The saddle feathers are rounded.

Javamama wrote:

Photos SD! Photos!

How old are yours now?

OK, here's mine - FYI, it's molting the feathers that look like saddle feathers near the tail

http://i242.photobucket.com/albums/ff202/vickih_photos/P1010082.jpg

http://i242.photobucket.com/albums/ff202/vickih_photos/P1010087.jpg

http://i242.photobucket.com/albums/ff202/vickih_photos/P1010085.jpg

These look like hens to me.  Their faces tell me that if they are giving you blue/green eggs, you have some Americana or Auricana in them.  But then I am NOT an expert.  I just have had a number of different kinds and these look more like the Americana breed to me.

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Javamama wrote:

I know - those feathers are throwing me too.  It's 17 or 18 weeks old now. The other pullets just started squatting for me this week, but he/she won't have any part of that game. Other than being aggressive toward me, it just doesn't act roosterly. I guess time will tell soon.

By that time those tail feathers should definitely be pointy. I think you definitely have a pullet. 

I found the batteries and took a bunch of photos. I realize now that my bird doesn't look as much like Java's as I thought. Mine has more color. But he looked like that a couple weeks ago, he has brightened up. I got some good photos of him. I also took many of the others, I'll download those tonight for everybody.

Okay, picture time! Too bad I'm such a lousy photographer!

Here you can kind of see my teenage "girls" Or at least they are supposed to all be females. The speckled sussex are on the left mainly.


Here is my roo, the same age as the ones above, seen here with the four younger ones he likes to hang with. This is the one that was looking a lot like java's bird until he got all those red feathers about a week ago. He was my ugly duckling, getting better now, but extremely shy bird.



This one shows one that I'm worried could be a cockerel, the kinda gold one in the center; Incidentely, that is my ramp where the goats enter the milking room in the house that you see in that picture.





Here is just another picture of the assorted EE/sussex flock (you can see our makeshift, free fencing in the background here):

This one is for WZ, she sent me the quinoa and this is some of it growing well, I think ready to harvest.


And more of the flock:


This one shows the four I hatched and would like to sex, note the leg colors. I think there is one of each sex of the two types in this picture, do you guys agree?


This was one of the best shots I got of the two that I suspect might be males (not the little sussex on the left):


Here is one of my crazy Karelian bear dog, Bandit.....


And last but not least, here is a shot of my new bunnies:


Ain't they cute?