Buff Orpington sexing

[Diadado]

8 week olds



Hoping my favorite Buff is a girl but not sure. 2 of 3 got tails first, no one has wattles at 8 weeks. Next picture is of the one who got the tail last.





Last picture is of my favorite along with an EE and SS of the same age. Hoping they are girls too.

 

[Chickenman76]

8 week olds



Hoping my favorite Buff is a girl but not sure. 2 of 3 got tails first, no one has wattles at 8 weeks. Next picture is of the one who got the tail last.





Last picture is of my favorite along with an EE and SS of the same age. Hoping they are girls too.

I'm thinking to close to call, lol, sometimes your roos mature slower and by the looks of the neck feathers so far not completed and the legs are looking thick, hmmmm

 

[Island Chick]

I would be pretty confident they are all girls. My orps looked the same at 8 weeks too. My roosters were pretty darn obvious by 4 weeks, had some serious wattles starting to grow. I wouldn't pay attention to legs too much, mine have some pretty decent tree trunks holding them up. If their comb isn't red evenly to the bumps and they don't have red wattles coming in, then I wouldn't worry.

 

[DomesticDiva12]

I am no pro, but I had 5 buff orpingtons last year and my roo was red by 3 weeks old and much more developed in the comb/wattles by 8 weeks old than those birds. I had on that looked questionable to me (because of body shape/feathering, the only reason I didn't call it a roo was because of the lack of comb/wattles) and it ended up being a pullet! She was super late on laying her first egg but definitely a female. Loved my roo though, he was gorgeous

 

[Sonja73]

Without a doubt-all pullets.

 

[Diadado]

Awesome - thanks!

 

[jamie7100]

Without a doubt-all pullets.

I agree. And as I see more pictures of these Buffs I'm getting more and more dubious of my own BOs. I think I only got one pullet in the bunch! Never again TSC straight run!!

 

[Sonja73]

If you get them young enough, less than 10 days old, it is really easy to feather sex them. Whoa, that sounded weird. What I mean is that you can tell the female/male from the growth of their "flight" feathers. The males are straight across-the same length. The females have straight feathers with short feathers in between.

 

[kidsbme3]

does feather sexing work in 10-12 week old birds? We checked them at 4 weeks, and thought we had alot of hens, looking at them now at 10 weeks it looks like allot of roo's.

 

[jamie7100]

From what I've read, feather sexing is accurate only in rapid feathering breeds that are only a few days old. By 10 weeks, you should be able to determine gender pretty accurately using the secondary sex characteristics.