Can anyone help me identify these peachicks as male or female??

[Kaitlyn614]

I am going tomorrow to purchase two baby peachicks, one is a dark pied 7 weeks the last one she has left that she is holding for me, then I want to pick between her loud pied or black shoulder. They are only 4 or 5 weeks. I want males. One hen would be fine but I really don't want to end up with two hens...but I know it is too early to tell for certain...

From front: loud pied, black shoulder, dark pied

Loud pied in back, black shoulder in front

Black shoulders on the feeder

Dark pied in very back, loud pieds in middle

Dark pied

Any opinions on the pictures are greatly appreciated!

 

[KsKingBee]

In the first two pics the Dark Pied bird is a hen. I don't see any Loud Pieds in any of the pics just Pied. In the next to last pic the bird on the feeder is a Pied hen. I would buy the Dark Pied hen and a White cock and make better Pieds.

 

[KsKingBee]

The Pied with the white 'V' on the back might be a cock.

 

[Kaitlyn614]

The Pied with the white 'V' on the back might be a cock.

Thank you! What is the difference between loud pied and pied?

 

[Kaitlyn614]

The Pied with the white 'V' on the back might be a cock.

Thank you! What is the difference between loud pied and pied?

 

[KsKingBee]

A 'good' Pied is about 40 to 50% White, a Loud Pied is up to about 80% white, and a Silver Pied will have 80% or more white with some silvering on the shield or back. When I look at a bird I ask myself 'Is it a white bird with some color or a colored bird with some white'.

 

[Kaitlyn614]

Thanks! So you think the pied with the v is a cock more likely than any of the others?

 

[Kaitlyn614]

The Pied with the white 'V' on the back might be a cock.

I got these two, does it look like a dark hen and pied cock?

 

[Kaitlyn614]

I got these two, does it look like a dark hen and pied cock?
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[KsKingBee]

Multiple bars on the same feather is a good indication of cock. The single wider barring with fewer of them indicates hen.