3 babies I need help determining boys from girls😂

[frasereve]

So these babies hatched under my broody leghorn on June 17th and 18th, they are about 7 and 1/2 weeks old! I know it still might be too early to determine gender but I’d like to try
Below are pictures of:
Lil peep - cream legbar I’m 90% sure it’s a girl
Elvis - lavender Orpington 99% sure it’s a boy
Casper- silkie I have no idea
Also attached a funny pic of Elvis trying to eat the camera
I had kept momma and babies in the coop with everyone as there weren’t problems up until 2 weeks ago elvis was being picked on by everyone including mom so I separated them all into their own coop ( Elvis is missing a few shoulder feathers now but finally growing back in!!)

 

[onwingandhoof]

Ypu are correct. The first are boy and girl. The silkie looks male. If that comb keeps growing, it may be one.

 

[frasereve]

Ypu are correct. The first are boy and girl. The silkie looks male. If that comb keeps growing, it may be one.

I’m not sure if this is the group page to ask this as well but he is a purebred LO! I wanted to get a rooster for my girls anyway so I was curious what he would produce baby wise. I have blue and splash amerucauna, buff Brahma, EE,barred rock, sapphire gem, olive egger, red production, black copper maran, and silkies. I’m planing to separate silkies into their own pen with a silkie rooster. But what would he pass on to babies?

 

[InterestingChickens]

Ypu are correct. The first are boy and girl. The silkie looks male. If that comb keeps growing, it may be one.

I agree. The Silkie is a cockerel.

But what would he pass on to babies?

5 toes with a crest.

 

[Sammi_0411]

Yeah I agree lil peep is a gal elvis and casper look to be male. They all gorgeous xxx

 

[frasereve]

Ypu are correct. The first are boy and girl. The silkie looks male. If that comb keeps growing, it may be one.

Hey I wanted to come back to let ya know casper I believe is turning out to be a boy!!!!! He’s the best protector tho of babies!!!! Any young chicks actually go with him bc he hasn’t tried to mate at all and let everyone snuggle with him!

 

[NatJ]

I’m not sure if this is the group page to ask this as well but he is a purebred LO! I wanted to get a rooster for my girls anyway so I was curious what he would produce baby wise. I have blue and splash amerucauna, buff Brahma, EE,barred rock, sapphire gem, olive egger, red production, black copper maran, and silkies. I’m planing to separate silkies into their own pen with a silkie rooster. But what would he pass on to babies?

Are you asking what the Silkie will pass to his babies? If so, this is a good answer:

The Silkie is a cockerel.

5 toes with a crest.

Or are you asking what the Lavender Orpington will pass to his babies?

For the Lavender Orpington, with those hens, you will get a lot of black babies, some blue ones (from hens that are blue or splash), and a few barred sons from the Barred Rock.

If the Production Red has a black tail, all her babies will be black. If she has a white tail, she will produce some white babies and some black ones.

I don't know what color the EE or the Olive Egger are, but black babies are pretty likely from them too.

Some of the black or blue babies will show some leakage of white, red, or buff as they grow up (most likely if their mother had a lot of one of those colors). Some of them will not.

 

[frasereve]

Are you asking what the Silkie will pass to his babies? If so, this is a good answer:


Or are you asking what the Lavender Orpington will pass to his babies?

For the Lavender Orpington, with those hens, you will get a lot of black babies, some blue ones (from hens that are blue or splash), and a few barred sons from the Barred Rock.

If the Production Red has a black tail, all her babies will be black. If she has a white tail, she will produce some white babies and some black ones.

I don't know what color the EE or the Olive Egger are, but black babies are pretty likely from them too.

Some of the black or blue babies will show some leakage of white, red, or buff as they grow up (most likely if their mother had a lot of one of those colors). Some of them will not.

I was asking for the lavender but we’ve actually switched what rooster we kept and we kept a blue EE instead!! And just to let you know The red production has a black tail and the EE is cream colored almost pure white and the Oliver egger is a maran mix so she’s completely black!! I’m going to post pictures of everyone including the Silkie Casper from before and it turns out you all were right he’s a he lol! I’ll say names and age and gender in the same order as the pictures below
Magic and voodoo both 2 months sex is unknown - pic 1
CASPER silkie from above post - pic 2
Casper, Voodoo and a baby WJG - pic 3
Wednesday all black Oliver egger - pic 4, 5, 10
McNuggets buff Brahma - pic 4 and 11
Peaches splash ameracauna - pic 3,4,5,6,8,
Gia cream colored EE - pic 4, 12
Foghorn all white leghorn - pic 4
Stormi all blue ameracauna -pic 5,6
Cream mostly white splash ameracauna pic 3 and 4
Skrim our blue EE rooster -pic 8
Last pic is Ren and Stimpy labeled wellsummer and EE









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[NatJ]

I was asking for the lavender but we’ve actually switched what rooster we kept and we kept a blue EE instead!! And just to let you know The red production has a black tail and the EE is cream colored almost pure white and the Oliver egger is a maran mix so she’s completely black!! I’m going to post pictures of everyone including the Silkie Casper from before and it turns out you all were right he’s a he lol! I’ll say names and age and gender in the same order as the pictures below
Magic and voodoo both 2 months sex is unknown - pic 1
CASPER silkie from above post - pic 2
Casper, Voodoo and a baby WJG - pic 3
Wednesday all black Oliver egger - pic 4, 5, 10
McNuggets buff Brahma - pic 4 and 11
Peaches splash ameracauna - pic 3,4,5,6,8,
Gia cream colored EE - pic 4, 12
Foghorn all white leghorn - pic 4
Stormi all blue ameracauna -pic 5,6
Cream mostly white splash ameracauna pic 3 and 4
Skrim our blue EE rooster -pic 8
Last pic is Ren and Stimpy labeled wellsummer and EE

You listed who is in which photo, for 12 photos.
But your post actually has 13 photos, and they seem to be in a different order.
For example, "pic 4" should have 5 chickens in it, but the 4th photo I see has a chicken labeled "splash" in the foreground and only one behind her.

But I think I've figured out who is who, based on the file names and the labels on some of them.

For chick predictions:
--if a parent has feathered feet (like the Brahma), you are likely to get chicks with feathered feet

--if a parent has muffs/beard, you are likely to get chicks with muffs/beard. Since that includes the EE rooster, you might get muffs/beard on all chicks, or you might get a few without.

--if both parents have pea combs, chicks should have pea combs too (EE rooster, hens that are Ameraucana, EE, or Brahma.) If one parent has a pea comb (rooster) and the other has a single comb (Leghorn, Olive Egger), their chicks will have one gene for pea comb and one gene for not-pea. That can cause a comb that looks like a pea comb, or looks almost like a single comb, or something odd-looking and blobby that is like combining some aspects of each. People sometimes call that a "modified pea comb."

--For chick colors, it depends a bit on what genetics the EE rooster has.

I'm sure he has the genes to be black all over, and the blue gene diluting all that black to blue. I will make predictions as if he were pure for those genes, but if I am wrong you could end up with some chicks who show quite a bit of gold or silver in their coloring, especially from the Brahma hen and the mostly-red EE (Stimpy).

I would expect black chicks and blue chicks from the blue rooster with the Olive Egger, the Buff Brahma, the Welsummer mix, and the mostly-red EE (Stimpy.)

I would expect black chicks, blue chicks, and splash chicks from the blue rooster with any blue hens (Ameraucana in the recent post, Sapphire Gem mentioned in an earlier post.)

I would expect blue chicks and splash chicks from the blue rooster and the splash hens.

From the White Leghorn, I would expect white chicks, but they may have some splotches of black or blue (this effect is sometimes called "Paint.") She's got the Dominant White gene that turns black into white, but when a chick only has one copy of the gene, it's a bit leaky, letting splotches of black through. The black splotches are turned to blue ones if the chick inherits the blue gene.

From Gia, the "cream" EE (looks white to me), I'm not sure what to predict. There are several genes that can cause a chicken to be white or almost-white. If she has Dominant White like the Leghorn, you'll get the same chick colors as from the Leghorn. If she has recessive white, that could be hiding any other color, which could pop up in her chicks (so they might be black, blue, white, or potentially something else yet.) If she's got a combination of other genes, the chicks could also be black, blue, white, or something else I can't predict.

For all the chicks, they may show some leakage of silver or gold, or they may not. It's more likely to happen if their mother had a lot of red/gold in her coloring, and less likely to happen if the mother is black, blue, splash, or white without any leakage. Leakage of this type is most likely in the breast & neck of daughters, and the shoulders of sons, although it can also appear in other places.

 

[frasereve]

You listed who is in which photo, for 12 photos.
But your post actually has 13 photos, and they seem to be in a different order.
For example, "pic 4" should have 5 chickens in it, but the 4th photo I see has a chicken labeled "splash" in the foreground and only one behind her.

But I think I've figured out who is who, based on the file names and the labels on some of them.

For chick predictions:
--if a parent has feathered feet (like the Brahma), you are likely to get chicks with feathered feet

--if a parent has muffs/beard, you are likely to get chicks with muffs/beard. Since that includes the EE rooster, you might get muffs/beard on all chicks, or you might get a few without.

--if both parents have pea combs, chicks should have pea combs too (EE rooster, hens that are Ameraucana, EE, or Brahma.) If one parent has a pea comb (rooster) and the other has a single comb (Leghorn, Olive Egger), their chicks will have one gene for pea comb and one gene for not-pea. That can cause a comb that looks like a pea comb, or looks almost like a single comb, or something odd-looking and blobby that is like combining some aspects of each. People sometimes call that a "modified pea comb."

--For chick colors, it depends a bit on what genetics the EE rooster has.

I'm sure he has the genes to be black all over, and the blue gene diluting all that black to blue. I will make predictions as if he were pure for those genes, but if I am wrong you could end up with some chicks who show quite a bit of gold or silver in their coloring, especially from the Brahma hen and the mostly-red EE (Stimpy).

I would expect black chicks and blue chicks from the blue rooster with the Olive Egger, the Buff Brahma, the Welsummer mix, and the mostly-red EE (Stimpy.)

I would expect black chicks, blue chicks, and splash chicks from the blue rooster with any blue hens (Ameraucana in the recent post, Sapphire Gem mentioned in an earlier post.)

I would expect blue chicks and splash chicks from the blue rooster and the splash hens.

From the White Leghorn, I would expect white chicks, but they may have some splotches of black or blue (this effect is sometimes called "Paint.") She's got the Dominant White gene that turns black into white, but when a chick only has one copy of the gene, it's a bit leaky, letting splotches of black through. The black splotches are turned to blue ones if the chick inherits the blue gene.

From Gia, the "cream" EE (looks white to me), I'm not sure what to predict. There are several genes that can cause a chicken to be white or almost-white. If she has Dominant White like the Leghorn, you'll get the same chick colors as from the Leghorn. If she has recessive white, that could be hiding any other color, which could pop up in her chicks (so they might be black, blue, white, or potentially something else yet.) If she's got a combination of other genes, the chicks could also be black, blue, white, or something else I can't predict.

For all the chicks, they may show some leakage of silver or gold, or they may not. It's more likely to happen if their mother had a lot of red/gold in her coloring, and less likely to happen if the mother is black, blue, splash, or white without any leakage. Leakage of this type is most likely in the breast & neck of daughters, and the shoulders of sons, although it can also appear in other places.

This helps a lot thank you!! We rehomed the barred rock from the 1st post and the sapphire gem so that’s why they weren’t in this one. I apologize I was trying to name all the photos but it was very difficult scrolling back and forth I’m currently waiting for Skrim to figure out how to work it I was curious if anyone can help me answer this as well so he’s now 3 months but he doesn’t crow at all! He’ll make a few small noises in the morning but after that no sound and he’s still learning to get along with the hens ( some refuse to be near him still and most still won’t squat for him) so how can I teach my girls to accept a roo