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Thank you for the feedback! Any other opinions?Based on coloring, they look like pullets.
It's really still a guessing game. I used to think I could tell this early with Cochin bantams because the hens feathered in faster, like you said. But then, I've had some fool me. You should be able to tell in another couple weeks, though. The little roosters get big combs early and some even start to crow at about 4 - 6 weeks.
Wow are they cute! It almost makes me want more chicks again, but life is too busy and I have no broodies right now.
Having 25 makes it easier to identify the genders than having just 2 or 3. It is hard to tell from the pictures, but I would guess out of your 4 blacks that A and D may be pullets, but my black pullets from Ideal usually have had longer wing tips, more like the red in the other picture. If it was me, I would keep that red for sure. Watch the tips of the tails over the next week or two. The ones that grow the fastest there and also on the shoulders are often the pullets. Most of them that are still pretty fuzzy around 3 to 4 weeks are the boys. The only exception I have had is the silver pencilled cochins; even the girls are still pretty fuzzy at 7 weeks.
Same. When I first started hatching, my very first hatch only had two hatch. I was POSITIVE that one was a pullet and the other a cockerel. The one I thought was a cock feathered in twice as fast, was less friendly, the comb and wattles were noticeably darker and larger than pullet chick’s, and as they grew up I thought I even saw a droopy tail feather on that one. In fact, I was still sure that chicken was a cockerel until about a week before she laid her first egg. I think the confusion was partially from the fact that they were both half dark Brahma, half black Australorp so they could grow differently based on which breed they were more like.It's really still a guessing game. I used to think I could tell this early with Cochin bantams because the hens feathered in faster, like you said. But then, I've had some fool me. You should be able to tell in another couple weeks, though. The little roosters get big combs early and some even start to crow at about 4 - 6 weeks.