Can you even sex 4 week old chicks?

[SpringChickens]

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Gritsar, what color are your salmon faverolles feathering out to be? Did you know that they are able to be sexed by color? If you have any black, especially on the breast, they are males. If they are all a light tan/white color, they are females.

 

[gritsar]

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Gritsar, what color are your salmon faverolles feathering out to be? Did you know that they are able to be sexed by color? If you have any black, especially on the breast, they are males. If they are all a light tan/white color, they are females.

Thanks for that tip!

Gee, I just checked them and two of them have black feathers on the very tip of the wings. None on the chest. They were sexed as pullets.

 

[SpringChickens]

Gee, I just checked them and two of them have black feathers on the very tip of the wings. None on the chest.

Sound like pullets to me!! It's very possible for pullets to have some black on their wing tips... just not on their chest. Males will NOT have a tan chest - it will be primarily black!

 

[mcurry]

Still have a feeling with a cpl BOs. They claimed all were pullets. One just seems slower at feathering & the build is just off. Not round like the rest. I'm jn suspense checking every day. Lol

 

[BrittBergh]

Its easy to tell when you have litter mates of the same breed chick together.
Sexing BO at 4/5 weeks is usually easy and accurate Ive read. Pullets will have more black and speckled white spots while the males will have defined barring around 5 weeks and reddening combs.
In our flock at first we only had one BO and was told it was a pullet, she is. Now we have added more birds and a few of them ae more BO...I have a rooster in there he is easy to tell at 1 week old. Short wings and no tail feathers compared to his sister litter mates who have nice long wings and tails already.

 

[missnu01]

I can totally tell the sex of my BO at 4 weeks. I have a cockerel now, but the rest all look like pullets. There might be another cockerel, but time will tell on that one..but one has a big red comb, way bigger and redder than the others, and also his feet are way thicker, by a lot...

I think we did pretty good for getting 5 straight run chicks to only get one rooster.

 

[missnu01]

Its easy to tell when you have litter mates of the same breed chick together.
Sexing BO at 4/5 weeks is usually easy and accurate Ive read. Pullets will have more black and speckled white spots while the males will have defined barring around 5 weeks and reddening combs.
In our flock at first we only had one BO and was told it was a pullet, she is. Now we have added more birds and a few of them ae more BO...I have a rooster in there he is easy to tell at 1 week old. Short wings and no tail feathers compared to his sister litter mates who have nice long wings and tails already.

Buff orpingtons are Buff colored..no spots...
Unless we are talking about a different acronym...I could be wrong, but pretty sure BO is for Buff Orpington.
You are thinking of Barred Rocks...BR.
Which are easy to tell..males are light and females are dark...easy peezy...with Orpingtons, and most all single combed breeds you can tell by a big red comb and matching set of wattles. Females do not get wattles until they are about to start laying eggs...so if you see chin flaps consider that a cockerel.

 

[BrittBergh]

Buff orpingtons are Buff colored..no spots...
Unless we are talking about a different acronym...I could be wrong, but pretty sure BO is for Buff Orpington.
You are thinking of Barred Rocks...BR.
Which are easy to tell..males are light and females are dark...easy peezy...with Orpingtons, and most all single combed breeds you can tell by a big red comb and matching set of wattles. Females do not get wattles until they are about to start laying eggs...so if you see chin flaps consider that a cockerel.

Barred Rocks!!!! Teach me to not sleep at night and think I know how to type well... ugh! I should go to bed now lol

 

[missnu01]

Thanks for that tip!

Gee, I just checked them and two of them have black feathers on the very tip of the wings. None on the chest. They were sexed as pullets.

On this it also makes a big difference where you get them from. Some hatcheries have been sending out females with a lot more dark feathers. So the colors aren't always so clear cut. I'm getting some from Cackle Hatchery. They are supposed to be pretty good with how their birds look so we shall see I think.