Silky hen with 3 chicks, 1 Jidori rooster, 1 Jidori hen, and 1 Silky. With Silkie it's hard to tell if they are a rooster or a hen until the get big and start practice fighting chest-bumping or awkawrdly start trying to crow. My guess through this first experience with Miyazaki Jidori heirloom birds is that the roosters have a brigher red background with a dark strip foreground from the start and the hens are plainer with only a lighter red background. That's my guess for now.

The plainer Jidori chick (probably a hen right?) was in a box all by her(?)self. I was nervous about leaving her in the box with the weeks-older turkey and silky chick. I tried it for a bit but the older silky was insistent about yanking on the new JiDori's feet as if they were tasty worms. To be save I had the new one in her(?) own box. but she was noisy when I came back for lunch. And it's a lot of work t make sure the heat lamps are working and there's a variety of food in 2 different boxes, and to think about how to time their adventures outside with the colder rainy weather. It's much better to leave all that to a brooding hen.. So I placed her next to the hen that's brooding the Jidori chick (rooster?) and Silky chick.. And it went well (KnockOnWood!!)...
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