My silkies hatched out these EE mix chicks this past June. Up until now, I've always been entirely sure these two were boys because of how much redder their combs were when compared to their sister (who disappeared while free ranging a few weeks ago... RIP Ravenna) but now I'm having my doubts. Although they're nearly four months, they don't seem to be showing any signs of the rooster feathers I would expect to see - but then again, I'm used to my Black Copper Marans where you can tell when they're as young as a few weeks. I need more experienced eyes - what do you think?
4 month old mix chicks... boys or girls??
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Both are pullets.
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Their both pullets, some people get confused on that because sometimes they get red young, but they don't grow and they stay like that until they get to the egg laying age. Yay! 
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I agree both pullets, with certainty on the first as that is almost always an EE pullet color pattern.
The second is usually an EE male color pattern, but it is very even, and the comb by 4 months would be much bigger with more feather evidence as to male...so I agree that is a pullet.
With mixed breeds, especially if you broody hatched them, they can mature and get rosier in the combs a different times/ways with siblings because they are mixed breeds....while they are siblings, what actual genetics they got will factor in differently for each bird...unlike pure breeds, with controlled lines especially, who mature more uniformly.
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The second is usually an EE male color pattern, but it is very even, and the comb by 4 months would be much bigger with more feather evidence as to male...so I agree that is a pullet.
With mixed breeds, especially if you broody hatched them, they can mature and get rosier in the combs a different times/ways with siblings because they are mixed breeds....while they are siblings, what actual genetics they got will factor in differently for each bird...unlike pure breeds, with controlled lines especially, who mature more uniformly.
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