Buff Minorca: Mochi or Loki?

[Shaycres]

Hi! I have a Buff Minorca who's four and a half months old. By this point in time I think I have most of my chickens accurately sexed - but I'm stumped on this one! I know Minorcas have big combs and I think that's throwing me off. I saw another thread with one around the same age and it was much more mottled in its coloring than mine, and most agreed it was a cockerel. What do you guys think?

 

[Amer]

Pullet

 

[Amer]

That tail is a dead giveaway

 

[Shaycres]

That tail is a dead giveaway

Thanks a bunch! What would a roo's look like around this age, much more curled?

 

[Amer]

Thanks a bunch! What would a roo's look like around this age, much more curled?

Yep

 

[Gray Farms]

Saddle feathers would also be clearly showing by now if it were a cockerel. You've got a pullet there. No worries

 

[Lauryn229]

Hi! I have a Buff Minorca who's four and a half months old. By this point in time I think I have most of my chickens accurately sexed - but I'm stumped on this one! I know Minorcas have big combs and I think that's throwing me off. I saw another thread with one around the same age and it was much more mottled in its coloring than mine, and most agreed it was a cockerel. What do you guys think?
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what did she look like at 2 months old? I have one almost 8 weeks and she is so much bigger than my RIR chick it’s hard to tell if she’s a she. maybe it’s still too early to tell?

 

[BigECart]

I have a 9.5 week old that looks similar - I thought yours had a redder comb, but zooming in it looks more pink, like mine. I’m guessing pullet. I’m hoping to have one mis-sexed chick, since my mystery chick didn’t survive shipping, but looks like I’m out of luck.

My buff minorca is the smallest of my 6 chicks. Much smaller than my black minorca. I also have an andalusian, cream legbar, true blue whiting, and crevecour. The photo is from a week ago, when she was 8 weeks old

 

[Lauryn229]

I have a 9.5 week old that looks similar - I thought yours had a redder comb, but zooming in it looks more pink, like mine. I’m guessing pullet. I’m hoping to have one mis-sexed chick, since my mystery chick didn’t survive shipping, but looks like I’m out of luck.

My buff minorca is the smallest of my 6 chicks. Much smaller than my black minorca. I also have an andalusian, cream legbar, true blue whiting, and crevecour. The photo is from a week ago, when she was 8 weeks old View attachment 2225180

Yours are adorable! Well, my little buff Minorca turned out to be a boy. He is gorgeous and has matured very quickly. At 10 weeks he started trying to crow. pretty cute.

 

[Lauryn229]

Yours are adorable! Well, my little buff Minorca turned out to be a boy. He is gorgeous and has matured very quickly. At 10 weeks he started trying to crow. pretty cute.

I have a 9.5 week old that looks similar - I thought yours had a redder comb, but zooming in it looks more pink, like mine. I’m guessing pullet. I’m hoping to have one mis-sexed chick, since my mystery chick didn’t survive shipping, but looks like I’m out of luck.

My buff minorca is the smallest of my 6 chicks. Much smaller than my black minorca. I also have an andalusian, cream legbar, true blue whiting, and crevecour. The photo is from a week ago, when she was 8 weeks old View attachment 2225180

Also, I think another sign is the patchiness of the feathers. His feathers look pretty different then most of the girls at this age.