Does slow to feather always mean rooster?

[eggspecto_patronum]

Im worried my chick may be a rooster. Sapphire is super sweet (clue #1) and is feathering slower (clue # 2)
Any chance she isn't a he?
I THINK she is a blue andalusian but im not sure.
She came from a Meyer hatchery assortment.

The bird in front is I think another andalusia who is feathering about the speed of the other chicks.

 

[CindyinSD]

Im worried my chick may be a rooster. Sapphire is super sweet (clue #1) and is feathering slower (clue # 2)
Any chance she isn't a he?
I THINK she is a blue andalusian but im not sure.
She came from a Meyer hatchery assortment.
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The bird in front is I think another andalusia who is feathering about the speed of the other chicks.
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I could not say at this time

 

[featheredplanets]

No, it doesn’t. You should soon know who’s what in a few weeks though.

 

[CindyinSD]

Some people breed for the slow/fast feathering as a sexing trait. Unless your birds have been bred this way, it doesn't necessarily mean anything.

 

[Lorax]

I'm going to stick my neck out and say rooster. We got ten one day old chicks two years ago, and from day one I sexed them all correctly and everyone here took the p*** out of me, including the farmer who sold them to us. But I was right!

We had two chicks born on Sunday and I've already said which one is a rooster.

*prepares to be spectacularly wrong here*

Gorgeous chick though.