6-8 week olds, can you tell the sex yet?

[TheOddOneOut]

Koko Kodiak and Onyx are females.

 

[Pippin quail]

Olive is definitely male
Hazel I’m 97% sure is male.
Ruby is definitely male.
Willow…pretty sure he’s male.
Flower…98% sure.
And Granite is 101%, definitely a male.

My daughter will be so annoyed. The ones she always picks the names of because they're her favorite end up being boys. (In this case Granite) though I'm going to be quite disappointed if every faverolles mix I hatched is a boy! What a pain.
We just butchered 6 of our 4 month old cockerels yesterday and it was just so sad... Hatching a bunch of chicks and having mostly boys is not something I was fully prepared for!

 

[Pippin quail]

Koko Kodiak and Onyx are females.

Phew! At least my two ameraucanas that hatched (out of 7 eggs!) ended up being girls. Small victories.

 

[TheOddOneOut]

Phew! At least my two ameraucanas that hatched (out of 7 eggs!) ended up being girls. Small victories.

Which chicks are you talking about?

 

[Vickischics]

I feel your pain.
I ordered 10 Polish Straight runs from a hatchery. I ended up with
2 Pullets out of 10 chicks.
The odds were against me for sure. Lol

 

[Pippin quail]

Which chicks are you talking about?

Chickmonk and Koko Kodiak are ameraucanas and both pullets. I originally had 7 blue eggs but only those two hatched. And Onyx is some EE mix in not sure of breed.

 

[TheOddOneOut]

Chickmonk and Koko Kodiak are ameraucanas and both pullets. I originally had 7 blue eggs but only those two hatched. And Onyx is some EE mix in not sure of breed.

Oh…sorry, but Chickmonk and Koko are EEs, not Ameraucanas. Their impure patterns, green legs, plus Koko’s lack of the trademark muffs & beard make me certain they are not Ameraucanas. Gorgeous EEs though, who will surely lay gorgeous colors.

 

[Pippin quail]

I feel your pain.
I ordered 10 Polish Straight runs from a hatchery. I ended up with
2 Pullets out of 10 chicks.
The odds were against me for sure. Lol

Yeah it's so hard.... You want to hatch or get chicks and end up with a bunch of boys! I ended up buying 9 laying hens a week or two ago to even out my flock and hopefully actually get some eggs out of this gig! So far I've gotten about 3 eggs a day. Hoping for more once they're all fully settled in.

 

[Pippin quail]

Oh…sorry, but Chickmonk and Koko are EEs, not Ameraucanas. Their impure patterns, green legs, plus Koko’s lack of the trademark muffs & beard make me certain they are not Ameraucanas. Gorgeous EEs though, who will surely lay gorgeous colors.

Oh. I really need to stop buying eggs/chicks/chickens from people on Kijiji and trusting that they are telling me the whole truth or actually know what they're talking about. I have bought purebred Ameraucana eggs. Ended up with these two apparently mixes. Bought 12 lavender Orpington eggs, ended up with 4 lavenders, 1 blue/mixed something and 3 black ones. And all my salmon faverolles mixes the lady was pretty sure would be pure Salmons favs, but at least she didn't promise. She also was almost certain Ruby was just an early developing pullet! (But she said if she was wrong she'd take him back so I didn't have another boy to butcher)....

 

[Vickischics]

Yeah it's so hard.... You want to hatch or get chicks and end up with a bunch of boys! I ended up buying 9 laying hens a week or two ago to even out my flock and hopefully actually get some eggs out of this gig! So far I've gotten about 3 eggs a day. Hoping for more once they're all fully settled in.

I wish you luck. My girls aren't laying regularly right now, plus I have one that layed a shell less egg that I need to correct. I now have 14 chickens. 7 pullets, not ready to lay and 7 Hens and 3 are regular layers. I knew I would get some cockerels but good grief...8!!!! I never thought. They were very pretty too. But, it's a "girls only" flock here.