Are laced varieties easier to sex?

[NatJ]

The juvenile feathering of pullets and cockerels look the same if they’re the same breed.

Most of the time, but there are a few exceptions...

There are the autosexing breeds (Cream Legbar, Bielefelder, etc)

I had some Wheaten Cubalaya Bantams that feathered out looking so different I thought I might have two different breeds. In hindsight, I probably could have sexed them by feather color/pattern at two weeks, or possibly even younger.

I also had some Brown Leghorns and another breed the same color, that were sexable by the breast feathers--the males grew black breast feathers from the very first, while the females grew brown ones.

Of course sexlinks wouldn't count, because they're hybrids instead of pure-breeding.

 

[RoostersAreAwesome]

Thanks. What about double lacing? Do roosters ever have double lacing in adulthood, or do they lose it when they mature?

They will lose all their lacing and will look very similar in pattern to partridge males.

Most of the time, but there are a few exceptions...

There are the autosexing breeds (Cream Legbar, Bielefelder, etc)

I had some Wheaten Cubalaya Bantams that feathered out looking so different I thought I might have two different breeds. In hindsight, I probably could have sexed them by feather color/pattern at two weeks, or possibly even younger.

I also had some Brown Leghorns and another breed the same color, that were sexable by the breast feathers--the males grew black breast feathers from the very first, while the females grew brown ones.

Of course sexlinks wouldn't count, because they're hybrids instead of pure-breeding.

That’s true. Mostly, though, their feathers do look the same for the first 1-5 weeks.