All roos except one?

[SmiYa0126]

I had a staggered hatch, and now the chicks range from 11 to 5 days. The black one with white dot is in the middle of the range ( first picture), the orange one is the youngest and the small one with the most feathers(first picture) is the oldest. I know they're still young, but based on feathering alone, I have a tiny gut feeling that there are six boys and one girl .

Mother's are olive egger for the dark colored chicks, and Easter egger for the ones with chipmunk stripes, and I think there's one Plymouth blue mix, but I lost track of it because it looks similar to the Easter egger mixes.

 

[Battlepants]

By feather alone, unless you bred for sexlinked offspring, feathers don't really mean much. And yea, the easter/olive eggers are already so much of a mixed bag of genetics that these could look like pretty much anything at this stage and still be 50/50 guess between male and female.

I'd wait until about 4 weeks and see if any combs/wattles start turning red. That's about the earliest I can make an educated suggestion on the sex of these and not have it be a complete guess.

 

[SmiYa0126]

By feather alone, unless you bred for sexlinked offspring, feathers don't really mean much. And yea, the easter/olive eggers are already so much of a mixed bag of genetics that these could look like pretty much anything at this stage and still be 50/50 guess between male and female.

I'd wait until about 4 weeks and see if any combs/wattles start turning red. That's about the earliest I can make an educated suggestion on the sex of these and not have it be a complete guess.

Thank you! I can't in good conscience even give these away if they're mostly boys.

 

[SmiYa0126]

By feather alone, unless you bred for sexlinked offspring, feathers don't really mean much. And yea, the easter/olive eggers are already so much of a mixed bag of genetics that these could look like pretty much anything at this stage and still be 50/50 guess between male and female.

I'd wait until about 4 weeks and see if any combs/wattles start turning red. That's about the earliest I can make an educated suggestion on the sex of these and not have it be a complete guess.

What about this one? He's almost three weeks, his comb looks like three rows, this one was hatched by my broody hen.

 

[Battlepants]

What about this one? He's almost three weeks, his comb looks like three rows, this one was hatched by my broody hen.

Still a little early to tell, but definitely trending toward being a boy. I'm betting that comb will get a decent amount of red in it in the next 1-2 weeks.

 

[SmiYa0126]

Still a little early to tell, but definitely trending toward being a boy. I'm betting that comb will get a decent amount of red in it in the next 1-2 weeks.

Thank you battlepants!

 

[SmiYa0126]

My first two chicks hatched in the incubator, the one in the second picture I had to assist as she was getting shrink wrapped. The second one was huge when it was born.