4 Week Old Welsummer Chicks -- One Pullet and One Cockerel??

[JeffOeuf]

Here's the one I think is a pullet.



And here's the one I think is a cockerel

 

[Ol Grey Mare]

Can you get clear chest shots of both birds? Welsummers have gender based feather patterning that makes telling the two sexes apart very easy - females feather in with a salmon breast and males feather in black breasted -- at this age your birds should be beginning to feather in on the chest making it fairly easy to tell the genders.

 

[thechickfam]

Can you get clear chest shots of both birds? Welsummers have gender based feather patterning that makes telling the two sexes apart very easy - females feather in with a salmon breast and males feather in black breasted -- at this age your birds should be beginning to feather in on the chest making it fairly easy to tell the genders.

x2

 

[JeffOeuf]

Will do. When born the one I think is a roo had a nearly solid white chest, while the other was nearly solid brown. Does that help?

I'll get chest shots later this afternoon.

 

[fshinggrl]

I've raised welsummers before and my suspicion is that you have two cockerels, but the chest shots will help.

 

[JeffOeuf]

Certainly hope that fshinggrl is wrong!

And, I am pretty sure she is. Photos proved to be difficult, but there's no question that there are black feathers coming in on the chest of the one I thought was a cockerel and no black, all red coming in on the chest of the one I thought was a pullet.

Thanks for the guidance!

 

[fshinggrl]

Certainly hope that fshinggrl is wrong!

I hope I am wrong too! I hatched three Welsummer chicks once and got two roosters and a suspected rooster (died @ about 5 weeks old.). Hopefully you can update soon!

 

[Rhodebar Lover]

Can you get clear chest shots of both birds?  Welsummers have gender based feather patterning that makes telling the two sexes apart very easy - females feather in with a salmon breast and males feather in black breasted -- at this age your birds should be beginning to feather in on the chest making it fairly easy to tell the genders.

x3