Feather Sexing

[mcard]

Four week old chicks, can sex be determined by length of tail or wings, or can it give you some ideas of the sex of chicks?

 

[nuthatched]

Comb and wattles development. Wing Feather sexing has to be bred for. And tail feathers sexing is only accurate 50% of the time

 

[Chive]

Comb and wattles development. Wing Feather sexing has to be bred for. And tail feathers sexing is only accurate 50% of the time

I agree. By now you should be able to guess going off of comb and wattles development.

 

[mcard]

Comb and wattles development. Wing Feather sexing has to be bred for. And tail feathers sexing is only accurate 50% of the time

Only four chicks in this hatch by broody hen, one that I can say I believe is a rooster is smaller than the other three, it is multicolored, the other three are black, so combs at this point are black but I don't see any growth at this point, the three blacks have long tail feathers and the multicolor one has hardly no tail feathers but has a yellow comb with some growth
, the black chicks grew feathers faster also. I can wait and will wait,lol, to find out just trying to learn some as I go not just hatch chicks and wait till they either crow or lay eggs.