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I am very encouraged by donrae's thoughts, as she is quite knowledgeable and has been helpful sexing on BYC. I will tell you when my chicks chest feathers starting coming in, it has almost a totally white chest and also it's comb and more especially it's waddles seemed to get large so early. I did a lot of combing through pictures of SS chicks, pullets and cockrels, and they all seem to have very large comb and waddles. Heck, in my adult flock I have two Black Australorps from the same breeder, and one has a huge comb and the other one never developed hardly any at all. I think it can vary between breed too. For my chick, I am going on the long tail/rectangular body shape in praying I have a pullet.I will be interested to hear what you find out, too. I just got two 6 wk old chicks and one has an awfully large comb, especially in comparison. Of course, where I live no roos are allowed. I will post pics of mine, when I get some good ones. That will be my 3rd cockerel, so far, this spring-figures!
Please post your pics, and someone may even chime in. Maybe donrae can give you some help. You deserve some pullet luck!!!!
Thanks for chiming in,
MB