Silver Laced Wyandotte sexing

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Early on this post someone talk about silver shoulders being roosters/cockerels, is this for reals? And are these couple day olds all roos w silver shoulders??
 

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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.
Would love to pick your brain on my SLW but it’s only 3 weeks so I shall wait.
 
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Not ever buying hatching eggs from an ebayer again.
I purchased 6 Silver Laced English Orpington eggs in Sept 2022, five yolkers one partially developed, locked down day 18 but never hatched. Candled on day 25 and never fully developed. Seller sent me another 6 SLEO eggs. WOW, I thought, that's nice. Five yolkers, one hatched.
I was not aware as to exactly what a SLEO chick should look like. I thought I had lovely SLEO chick. I contacted her and gave her the news.
At first she said she was going to send me 6 more eggs so the little one wouldn't be alone.
Then.....a couple days later she asked for the picture I had sent to be sent again. Said she didn't get it. Ok. Stuff happens, so I sent it and a few more. Once again she said she wasn't getting the pictures...😒 🤔
So she asked if I would send them to her email, an icloud.com account. So I did.

That was 6 days ago. All communication from her stopped abruptly. I sent her 4 more emails and several more messages over ebay....nothing 🤨

So I paid an exuberant price for Silver Laced Orpingtons which are very rare where I live and I got what I originally thought to be a Silver Laced Wyandotte which can be bought locally and at the farm store for about five bucks. We love her but thats not the point 😔

Now I don't even think she is a purebred Wyandotte. Don't Wyandotte chicks have yellow legs? Hers are gray.

First pic is my chick.
Other pic is what I found online.
 

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