5 week old Silver Laced Wyandotte, what gender? **NEW PICS - post 18**

[sbtgal]

Close as I could get of it's head, it looks more red in person.

Here it is standing on the brick (the other two are a barred rock and australorp, don't need gender on them..... yet)

 

[navasima]

I'm going to guess little boy, just because there seem to be a pretty red comb and a bit of wattles there.
(This is just a tentative guess as I'm still pretty new at this. )

 

[smarsh]

boy

 

[Renee']

Too young to tell.

 

[Uzuri]

My money's on boy. Huge legs, huge wattles, red comb, and no tailfeathers. Lot of strikes against him.

 

[sbtgal]

It actually DOES have short tail feathers. I bought it from a nice gentleman that bought eggs and hatched them in an incubator. When I went to pick it out, it was two weeks old, and the guy said that usually males get their tail feathers after females. So I picked the smallest one with a tail. Of course, I guess nothing is fool proof. Another bit of info though, I noticed a teeny tiny little bump on the back of each leg. Like the size of the tip of an ink pen, but right where I'm assuming a spur could eventually be. If it does end up being a cockerel, I'm afraid it will have to go. I don't want to risk my neighbors getting ticked and then having to get rid of my hens too!

 

[JPinVT]

That's a boy! Think the barred is a boy too...

 

[Uzuri]

Quote:
Spur bumps actually are pretty meaningless -- all my girls had 'em. Some of my hens have pretty violent looking spurs now, too.

 

[Lothiriel]

It's a cockerel.

 

[tbrz70]

I am new to this however, I have 3 silver laced wyandottes that I have had since they were three weeks old and none of my girls had any red around their beaks until they were about 2 months old. That is why I would say cockerel.

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