Bantam Cochin gender

[Rhodebar Lover]

While that is true for day old chicks what about older ones? This blue cochin bantam I had 21 years ago was very slow feathering and turned out to be a cockerel although could be a coincidence. I’ll report if my 3 light brahmas and 3 birchen cochins are cockerels. They all only have tiny bits of feathers at 3 weeks old. Unless I sell them first.

He was 8 weeks old in this pic. Wish I took one of him when he was about a month old and had very little wing feathers. I’ll see if I can take pics of the 6 chicks tomorrow.
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All of my incredibly slow to mature chicks have been males. This isn’t related to wing feathering sexing in my opinion. Males do often just take longer to feather out.