Calico Cochins *Please tell me I'm wrong*

[annanicole18]

Ok folks I am pretty sure I know the answers but am hoping with fingers crossed I am wrong. Hatched some Calico Cochins and now at a monthish old I am starting to try to sex them. And I am not happy with what I am seeing... All the awesome colored ones and two of the three frizzles look to be cockerels. So here I am asking for others opinions on a few of them to see if my suspicious self is right. All four pictures are different birds. Thanks everyone!

 

[Chicken Boy 101]

I'm pretty sure the one in the third picture is a cockerel.the other ones I'm no sure.

 

[dlp40]

I would say 1&2 are pullet
3&4 are cockrels
Beautiful chicks!

 

[21hens-incharge]

I would say 1&2 are pullet
3&4 are cockrels
Beautiful chicks!

X2. Very cool chicks!

 

[AnneInTheBurbs]

I would say 1&2 are pullet
3&4 are cockrels
Beautiful chicks!

Agreed!

 

[annanicole18]

X2. Very cool chicks!

NOOO!! That's exactly what I didn't want to hear. Number 4 is the only frizzle that has a nice mixture of color. Number 3 is the most outgoing and little rascal has already figured out how to hop off the roost to the side of the brooder. Well thank you all for telling me that attachment to these guys isn't going to happen. Hens only for now. What a bummer but that is the genetics game.

 

[21hens-incharge]

Well poo. I thought you would be happy that they weren't all boys.

The girls are still quite charming. You do know every time they molt they get more spots.

I think that you are lucky with such cute girls.

 

[annanicole18]

I am happy they aren't all boys but I was really hoping that number four would be a girl. He has the exact coloring I was hoping for when I bought these eggs to hatch. The other two frizzles are mostly a meh brown. Not home right now to do a head count but I feel like I saw more hen type heads than the boys. Oh well I am loving how fluffy their feet are!

 

[drumstick diva]

You know they will develop different coloring as they mature and you may find your girls to be delightful. But, 4 weeks is young, give them another 4 to be certain. Are these bantam Cochins or large? Banties usually get combs early

 

[annanicole18]

You know they will develop different coloring as they mature and you may find your girls to be delightful. But, 4 weeks is young, give them another 4 to be certain. Are these bantam Cochins or large? Banties usually get combs early

They might color up nicely but really the color was just a bonus to the fluffy bums and feet with the nice Cochin temperament. They are bantams. I don't mind giving them more time but if I am fairly certain that they boys are boys I would happily move them along. Then I could set some more eggs from the next Cochin colors I was wanting.