3 week old Crested Polish

[KikiDeAnime]

I only need expert feedback so anyone who doesn't raise Polish, please don't reply to this thread

Someone has started crowing but refuses to do it when I'm out there so I need to find out who it is before our neighbors call on us again.

 

[oldhenlikesdogs]

They are too young to show any comb development. That happens after 5-6 weeks, than you can generally tell the males by the pink combs.

 

[KikiDeAnime]

They are too young to show any comb development. That happens after 5-6 weeks, than you can generally tell the males by the pink combs.

I don't care about the comb development.
I was told to sex them by their crest.

 

[oldhenlikesdogs]

I don't care about the comb development.
I was told to sex them by their crest.

You can't sex them by the crest until it grows in more. The combs will color up before the crests are in enough to judge.

 

[Buffy18]

I tried to sex by crests after getting four chicks, i guesses four girls and got three roos i had to end up selling

 

[Yorkshire Coop]

Agree with @oldhenlikesdogs, they are too young to sex at the moment. Could be any of them.... also just sexing them on crest alone does not always work. In a perfect world the female crest would always be neat & round but that does not always happen. I’ve had plenty of females who’s crest have looked like they are going to male only for them to be actually female.

 

[HuffleClaw]

Agree with @oldhenlikesdogs

 

[KikiDeAnime]

I guess I'll get rid of them then. I will have to anyway once our neighbors call on us again.

 

[KikiDeAnime]

I had planned on putting a rooster collar on whoever turned out to be a boy but since they're too young to have one on, I will have to get rid of them. We're not allowed to have roosters but we've kept 2 cockerels before thanks to our rooster collars.

 

[Yorkshire Coop]

In my opinion that’s rather premature when you don’t actually know the sex of them yet. If your neighbour are so prone to complaining or whatever it is they do I would suggest you hatch sex linked chicks so the males can be removed immediately if things are that bad.

Unfortunately polish are a hard to breed to sex and often for some weeks.