Hens or Roos? 4week old Wyandottes

trippinmoose

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Apr 2, 2024
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Need help sexing them. Just noticed their combs are different. One spikey one flat and now I’m nervous one may be a Roo. They were sexed but didn’t confirm breed. I think they are silver laced wyandottes but not sure.
 

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They definitely could be. I thought maybe black Australorps when they were 1 week but they looked more like Wyandottes then. They weren’t in a labeled brooder so it’s a toss up!
Hmm yeah maybe do some research, they look a lot like my black australorps did at that age only more grey/blue
 
So far they're looking like girls.

They're definitely not Silver Laced Wyandottes though. I think they're Sapphire Gems.
Even though the first one has a rose comb, they could still be SGs. Sapphire Gems aren't an official breed, so they don't really have a breed standard. So little things like a wrong comb could pop up here and there, I believe. But they are a cross of Blue Rocks and Barred Rocks and those two have single combs, so I'm not sure.
I found this article that has a picture of a SG with a rose comb, the pic is at the start of the egg laying section. The article also goes into some detail about the breed.
https://cs-tf.com/sapphire-gem-chicken/
 

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