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What is meant by even feathering vs uneven? The colors?dotties can be sexed as day old chicks by looking at the feathering on the wing. even feathers are males, uneven are females but you are past this point, but next time you will know.
Would love to pick your brain on my SLW but it’s only 3 weeks so I shall wait.It's nap time for my toddler so I finally have a chance to sit at the computer and type up a proper response/ explanation. I struggle to type anything very lengthy on my smartphone.
Anyway, as chicks grow up, they will go through several different phases of feathering and mini molts. It's easier to see on some breeds and colors than others. You won't notice it as much on a solid colored chicken. The first feathers that come in after the chick fluff tend to be duller colored and sometimes oddly patterned. It helps them to blend into the surroundings until they are bigger and less vulnerable. Anywhere between 2-3 months, they will start to get their adult feathering in. Your wyandotte has mostly black feathers with a stripe of white in the middle, but she probably won't look like that when she's all grown up. Her adult feathers will have much more white on them, like the feathers on her shoulders and the ones on her chest. You'll see more and more of those feathers pop up over the next few weeks and less and less of the mostly black feathers. She will molt again at about 1 year old and the lacing can change again then. I have a BLR wyandotte hen that is going through her 1 year molt right now. Her new feathers are actually coming in a different color. Her feathers look very patchy and strange right now.
I've hatched and raised around 50 wyandotte chicks this year. I sex them between 6-8 weeks old (though some I can tell apart sooner) by the size and color of their wattles. I haven't found any other way that's more reliable. I have about a dozen wyandotte chicks in the 9-10 week old range right now. I'll go take and post a few photos of them that will help show the differences between the males and females. I'm very confident that yours is a pullet.