I have some chicks thst I am confused about. I originally started with 5 red ee's from green eggs. At first It was obvious three were male. Thier combs were super red and huge compaired to these two. These two Ithought were female but now I am wuestioning becuase of tail feathers. Combs never got big like the others. Can anyone help? I might include a picture of a few non reds I am looking for confirmation on.
Look at their feathering on their backs. Your red cockerels all have very visible male saddle feathers coming in. I'm seeing one definite pullet among the reds. The white one's comb is screaming cockerel, but it's difficult to get a good photo that shows the saddle feathers on white birds. The solid blue is definitely a pullet. The blue with gold leakage is definitely a male.
I only have two red chickens. Do you think the one with less color is female and the other one with the darker colors and even some iridescent showing up is male? Both of the reds have considerably smaller and lighter color combs than the other reds I originally had, leading me to believe these two might both be female... however neither of their tail feathers are rounded. These chickens were hatched from dark green eggs.
Ignore the combs. Look at the feathers on the back. What are the feathers telling you? One red has male specific feathering. The other does not.
Perfect. the tail feathers also threw me off but if hackle feathers are a better or easier indicator of sex, then I think I do have one of each. Thanks for your help.
He doesn't have visible hackle (neck) or sickle (tail) feathers yet. He does have very visible SADDLE feathers on his back.
