3 days old!

[aziegler17]

Goodmorning all!
I found a place that had 2 day old bantam chicks that I had been looking for. Theyre ADORABLE to say the least.

I got them yesterday so today they would be 3 days old.
I was curious to see if anyone was good with feather sexing.
If I was reading the articles and the diagrams correctly I'm thinking these all look like girls
But I am a newbie so I wanted to get the BYC community opinion! Thank you!

 

[Firefox]

I'm a newbie too so sadly I can't give you any advice, but congrats on the new chicks! So cute!

 

[NatJ]

Goodmorning all!
I found a place that had 2 day old bantam chicks that I had been looking for. Theyre ADORABLE to say the least.

I got them yesterday so today they would be 3 days old.
I was curious to see if anyone was good with feather sexing.
If I was reading the articles and the diagrams correctly I'm thinking these all look like girls
But I am a newbie so I wanted to get the BYC community opinion! Thank you!

If you were reading accurate articles, you would have also learned that it DOES NOT WORK on most chickens. Unfortunately, there are many articles that forget to mention that very important point.

Feather sexing only works when the parents are specially chosen: the mother but have the slow feathering gene, and the father must have the fast feathering gene.

(Edit to clarify: I am not trying to yell at you, just very irritated with the people who post those misleading articles. There are way too many of them on the internet!)

 

[aziegler17]

If you were reading accurate articles, you would have also learned that it DOES NOT WORK on most chickens. Unfortunately, there are many articles that forget to mention that very important point.

Feather sexing only works when the parents are specially chosen: the mother but have the slow feathering gene, and the father must have the fast feathering gene.

(Edit to clarify: I am not trying to yell at you, just very irritated with the people who post those misleading articles. There are way too many of them on the internet!)

Welp, that's excruciatingly disappointing.

 

[aziegler17]

I'm a newbie too so sadly I can't give you any advice, but congrats on the new chicks! So cute!

Thank you! They look like my one Hen I have when she was a chick. So fingers crossed they grow up to be like her