5wk peachicks, can you tell the sex?.Another Pic added

[clhbubba]

edited to ad another pic of smaller chick

 

[Kev]

Pied is female, whites are hard to sex until they are 4-6 months of age, by comparing overall size plus leg & toe length/thickness.

Pic of smaller one is too fuzzy, sorry.

 

[deerman]

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the white may be up to a year b4 sexing. Unless you have ones about the same age to compare. Males will be longer legs, also will get bigger spurs.

Guess on the last one male.

 

[clhbubba]

I've added another pic of the smaller chick, don't know if it's any better than the first. It amazes me that y'all can tell just by looking! So, how do you know the pied is female? I was hoping for all males, by now I'm hoping to get just one...

 

[deerman]

If you look at the pied, on the shoulder base of the neck. She has lost the bars in those feathers, is the IB the same age?

 

[clhbubba]

The IB is about 5 days younger than the white one and about 3 days younger than the pied. Probably because I was hoping for 3 males I will have all 3 females!

 

[Kev]

Wow that has got to be a first. I usually get questions/requests for either one male and several females or even just females only.

As deerman said, the pied is already solid colored on back. Males go through a heavily barred/striped stage before they are fully mature. The last chick has this heavy barring/striping but then really young females have these too. It looked much smaller and younger & the angle is not best for sexing so hesitated on guessing on that one but if its really only 3 days younger than the pied, it's a boy.

 

[clhbubba]

I just really wanted to see some male peacocks strutting around the farm!
The IB and the pied were the same size when we picked them up. The lady told us there was a two to three day difference. I can say that it went through quite a puny stage where we weren't sure it was going to make it. Wasn't eating well, droopy wings. He was like that for about 4 days then perked up(with some advice from this group). He's been noticably smaller since then. Would a top view be better or some closer view of the wings or maybe just wait til it gets a bit older?

 

[Kev]

Ahh okay. Glad it pulled through! Some people like the top view- to see the amount of barring on the back feathers, I also like to see the lower front neck.

 

[deerman]

Yes I like back pics. better to sex, for me. These look older than 5 weeks too.