buff Orpington Chicks

[LittleMamaBigPapa]

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Rockland,

Check out my BYC page....we got 3 buffs last year, our first chicks ever, and you can start to see the difference at about two weeks. (And you CAN sex a Buff-but only professionals) even profs only have a 90-95% accuracy rate....anyways, check out my pics and you can see the physical differences in feathering and stature. If the chicks you are looking at are over a week old, they should have wing feathers starting. Our pullets developed wings and tails.. the roo didn't get ANY tail feathers until well after the girls. Also, we noticed the girls preened their feathers constantly and the roo never did.

Good luck!!!

 

[Davis5454]

Sounds stupid.....but I always had better luck looking at the comb areas after a week or two. Roos always had more developed comb buds after a week or so.

Yes...my opinion....it looks like a hen.

Got my chicks from Ideal.....ordered 33 and they were 100% correct on sex for my order.

 

[Fort Orpington]

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I'd say thats a hen.

 

[jettgirl24]

I would guess hen too... Here's a pic of my roo at 6 1/2 weeks for comparison:

 

[ktkoenig6]

YAYYYY!!! thats such a relief. i was kinda concerned...haha. cuz if she was a roo we couldnt keep her. or him i guess...

so yay!

 

[Jasmine1998]

Oh boy.....from reading this I am afraid I may have 2 BO roos now. I got 7 of them & at 1 week 4 of them have wing feathers almost 2 inches long & the other 2 they are maybe 1/4 of an inch long....so much for them being 90% accurate. Also, does the same thing go for Wyandottes??? Because 2 of the 6 are the same way......

 

[TherryChicken]

Oh boy.....from reading this I am afraid I may have 2 BO roos now. I got 7 of them & at 1 week 4 of them have wing feathers almost 2 inches long & the other 2 they are maybe 1/4 of an inch long....so much for them being 90% accurate. Also, does the same thing go for Wyandottes??? Because 2 of the 6 are the same way......

In all the breeds I've messed with I've found that most females grow feathers much quicker OR the males have un even wings where the females are fully rounded off. One or the other..