I bought my chicks from the local farmers market when they were a few days old and tried to wing sex them them after watching how to do it on youtube. This is my first chickens so this is a learning curve for me. Anyway, there was some that i was pretty sure were girls and others that i wasn't so sure about. They are all mutts and i bought them in 4 separate batches a few weeks apart. Now they're about 2-3 months old and I'm thinking some are cockerels but I'm not sure. I was watching another video on youtube where the woman was showing hens with straight rounded tail feathers and no red wattle, and males with big red wattles and drooping, pointed tail feathers.
Some of my chickens have red wattles and straight rounded even tail feathers that stick up and are not drooping, are these ones boys or girls? And I've got another which is one of the oldest ones with a really small comb that's kind of reddish and it's tail feathers are messy and pointed but short compared to the others, is that a boy or girl? This is confusing me
I'll try to get some pictures ......
Some of my chickens have red wattles and straight rounded even tail feathers that stick up and are not drooping, are these ones boys or girls? And I've got another which is one of the oldest ones with a really small comb that's kind of reddish and it's tail feathers are messy and pointed but short compared to the others, is that a boy or girl? This is confusing me
I'll try to get some pictures ......
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