John Great, thanks I\'ll be watching carefully at 5 months of age for the first eggs. Woohoo can\'t wait!!!
Mike Of the 10 birds they should be: two splash and so far that is clear, 2 blue (of which one was sadly DOA) and the rest black. My friend took 3, two of hers are black and one is splash. (I checked carefully by the toe punch code info that Paul gave me for each chick) So the remaining birds I kept should be 1 splash, 1 blue and 4 black BUT the coloring doesn\'t seem to match. One is definitely splash, two are definitely black, one looks white with no splash at all, two look blue with neck/head and cape feathers dark but not quite black. I\'m hoping they are these varieties even though I was expecting mostly black. I also realize at 11 weeks of age this isn\'t their adult plumage. So should I expect to wait until 5 months of age to see their adult plumage and know for sure? It\'s hard to imagine that the white bird will actually change to black she\'s so light. Would posting a picture of the six together help identify the roosters or are they still too young?
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