Buff Brahma Bantam Gender

[ChickenChick46]

These 2 buff brahma bantam babies will be 6 weeks old on Wednesday. Is it too soon to tell their gender with their pea combs? I'm much better with single combs.

The comb pictures are each a different bird. The others are of each bird and the 2 together. I'm sorry the pictures aren't great. I promise the rest were worse, lol.

They looked pretty different the first 3/4 weeks or so, but the past week, I can barely tell them apart.

 

[redinator]

From what I understand peacombs on males tend to have a wider base than females. These two chicks seem to have an even coloring which I'm pretty sure indicates female. Males coloring tend to be splotchy and uneven.

I'll go with pullets, but I'm still figuring out some of this myself so wait for others to weigh in.

 

[ChickenChick46]

From what I understand peacombs on males tend to have a wider base than females. These two chicks seem to have an even coloring which I'm pretty sure indicates female. Males coloring tend to be splotchy and uneven.

I'll go with pullets, but I'm still figuring out some of this myself so wait for others to weigh in.

Thank you! When they were younger, I got mixed signals, lol. I read that with this breed, cream color on the wings at an early age (like a week) could mean male. One of them had that. But then I also read that a smoky gray color early on indicates female, which they most definitely both were.

Now I feel like they just look almost identical.

 

[redinator]

Thank you! When they were younger, I got mixed signals, lol. I read that with this breed, cream color on the wings at an early age (like a week) could mean male. One of them had that. But then I also read that a smoky gray color early on indicates female, which they most definitely both were.

Now I feel like they just look almost identical.

I have a EE that's coming up on 11 weeks that has a wide rose comb and splotchy red leakage on its wings, but it's comb is still pale and has small wattles so I'm still on the fence with that one. It behaves rooish with the other chicks, but is very sweet with me.

Edit: Actually, it just dawned on me it has a bit of a beard and muffs, so I maybe missing the wattles behind all the fluff. I'll have to give it a closer look.

 

[ChickenChick46]

I have a EE that's coming up on 11 weeks that has a wide rose comb and splotchy red leakage on its wings, but it's comb is still pale and has small wattles so I'm still on the fence with that one. It behaves rooish with the other chicks, but is very sweet with me.

Edit: Actually, it just dawned on me it has a bit of a beard and muffs, so I maybe missing the wattles behind all the fluff. I'll have to give it a closer look.

I hope it's a pullet for you. If that's what you want, at least. I think my EE is a male, unfortunately.

 

[Whittni]

Nothing screams male yet.

 

[ChickenChick46]

Nothing screams male yet.

Thank you. I hope they're both pullets. I'm allowed to have roosters, but I'm at my cockerel limit and already have some to rehome. These 2 birds are always together, and they seem to really like one another.