Sexing Chicks

[Frosty_2503]

I've got 20 chicks, black copper marans, easter eggers, and silkies. The silkies are 7 weeks old, the easter eggers are 6 weeks, and the marans are 5 weeks. When and how do I sex them? Is there a way to do so before the roos start to crow? I can send pictures of each individual chick if need be. Thanks!

 

[Evelyn Walker]

You can post individual pictures of each chick's comb for us to sex the Marans and EE's now, but you'd have to wait longer for the Silkies. They can be tough.

 

[Frosty_2503]

 

[Frosty_2503]

 

[Frosty_2503]

There are the pictures of their combs, they are labeled. Tiny and Maran 1 seem to have copper flecks in their wing feathers I don’t know if that means anything, they were the only Marans with them. Tiny was a runt Black Cooper maran, she/he hatched out half the size of the rest.

 

[Frosty_2503]

You can post individual pictures of each chick's comb for us to sex the Marans and EE's now, but you'd have to wait longer for the Silkies. They can be tough.

I posted the pictures of all their combs, the easter eggers are labelled EE and black copper marans BCM. The easter eggers were in a pen of marans, olive eggers, ameraucana, and cream legbars.

 

[Evelyn Walker]

Here are my thoughts:
Daisy-cockerel
Elsa-pullet
Flower-pullet
Dixie-cockerel
Velvet-cockerel
Harley-cockerel
Olivia- cockerel
Tiny-pullet
Marans 1-pullet
Marans 2-cockerel
Marans 3-cockerel
Marans 4-pullet
Marans 5-cockerel
Marans 6-cockerel
Marans 7-cockerel

I am incredibly sorry about the high percentage of roo's you have--I know it can be frustrating.