Care to take a guess on mine?

[syble]

I've been lurking through the threads for a long time now, but still don't see the tricks all of the time. I have 5 peachicks. an IB, and 2 BS that are about 6 weeks or so and 2 dark pieds(?) that are about 8 weeks or so. Everything i'm seeing here is making me think i have all males
Thoughts?








Pictures are the 2 older IB dark pieds, and the 2 younger BS

 

[Mrs. Fluffy Puffy]

Both the older peachicks look to be males. The younger ones might be females, it's hard to tell. They are still young.

~ Aspen

 

[syble]

to have at least a couple hens would be great! the 2 older ones don;t really seam to be loosing any of their baring, heres a different view of their backs:

 

[AugeredIn]

At this point, I would guess all males but they are still too young to bet money. Four more weeks and you will have a better idea.

 

[syble]

thanks, I will update the photos at the end of september, would be lovely if at least 1 was a hen. I have a guy i can buy 2 purple hens and a silver pied hen from, so thats on my list of to dos' now apparently... Now I just need to find a site for pea color genetics. I know IB pattern is dominant over black shoulder, but that's the extent of my knowledge lol.

 

[frenchblackcopper]

Your bottom 2 pics in your first post looks like b/s males,you can begin noticing feather color changes in b/s chick around 3 weeks of age.

 

[syble]

so if more dark feathers have come in on their backs then the bs are males then right?

 

[frenchblackcopper]

BS males of most colrs except BSSP all begin to get the many darker feathers coming in as your bottom 2 pics in post#1,,since their covert wing feathers will be black as well as across their backs it only makes common sense this sex and pattern of bird will show the most change.BS hens are mostly all white with varying amounts of black that comes in on the tips of back feathers or small blotches.My B/S hens looks like some of them have overspray paint on them,,just enough to see they are not solid white.Both birds in your post#3 looks to be males barred pattern.

 

[syble]

awesome luck, all 5 that i hatched are males what are the odds!

 

[Yoda]

yup all males