Calling Mother Goose!!! What sex are these Welsummers???

[mothergoose]

Oh my goodness, the pressure....
This is the first time I have had to guestimate by photo, so be gentle if I end up way off base

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Here goes...
#1 boy
#2 girl
#3 boy
#4 girl
#5 boy?

(#5 the photo is hard to see the comb well could be girl. )

Time will tell.
Christie

 

[speckledhen]

So, Christie, are you going by the comb alone on these? Tell us the sexing secrets of Welsummers! I've almost decided on all my birds that they'll reveal themselves in time and not to even try to guess, LOL.

 

[mothergoose]

Cyn,
Yeap, strickly by comb. I don't try as dayolds. I have never tried the head markings theory. But, usually by a week old the males have a more predominate comb. The females usually are still very tight to the head. It is'nt 100% accurate, but I usually am pretty close.
Hope I am this time too!

Or I might have to go hide under a rock.

Christie

 

[speckledhen]

Hope I am this time too! Or I might have to go hide under a rock.

LOL, oh, no you won't! Your guesses are worth more than mine, that's for sure. I dont even have any yet and you've been raising them for years. Even then, just like with even the Barred Rocks, one or two will have confusing markings and fool us "experts", and I use that term very loosely in my case.​

 

[Wynette]

Cyn, you're so humble! Your presence sure brings a lot to this forum!

 

[mothergoose]

Cyn,
Thanks for the vote of confidence.

I have so many people that buy chicks from me and want me to sex them. I don't offer on day olds and I still tell them its a guess on the started chicks. I have'nt had any returns, so I guess its working so far!

Christie

 

[speckledhen]

I have'nt had any returns, so I guess its working so far!

Well, that's good enough for me! When a person raises a particular breed for years, he/she just gets a sense of them, a feeling for the subtle clues of sex of that breed, I think. Even that doesn't always work, though. Got myself pretty well snookered by a Blue Orp pullet not long ago, made me think she was a little boy. Usually it's the other way around.​

 

[jab91864]

And here I had taken notes on the head stripe thing...lol. Combs it is then... ya never know when I will have to use that info. Hopefully soon !!

Julie

 

[mothergoose]

Julie,
You don't have to dismiss the marking thoery. I honestly have never tried it. I hatch so many birds that it is just to hard for me to keep an accurate acount from start to finish to even begin to test it.
Some of you that are hatching them for yourselves maybe should test both theorys and see witch is the most accurate. It would be interesting to know.
Christie

 

[Wildsky]

Christie,
Sorry to HIJACK the thread. Do you ever sell your muscovy eggs?
I'd love a few ducks, muscovy's are my favorite and I'd love to get some in the future.