Feather Sexing Baby Chicks Help!

[Gallinarium]

The pictures aren’t very clear but the first one is definitely a pullet, the rest look like cockerels to me. I don’t know a lot about breeds but I do know that feather sexing doesn’t work for some of them so the cockerels might not be accurate.

I've heard the opposite, that most breeds cannot be feather sexed, only a select few.

 

[tizabel_]

I've heard the opposite, that most breeds cannot be feather sexed, only a select few.

You’re probably right

 

[The Moonshiner]

Feather sexing only works when you cross a fast feathering breed rooster to a slow feathering breed hen.
Feather growth rate is sex linked so it works with crossing breeds like any other kind of sex links.
Doesn't work on pure breeds.

 

[Evanloveschickens]

This only works in certain breeds.

By any chance do you know what breeds it doesn’t work on? These are a whole bunch of mutts lol

 

[Gallinarium]

You’re probably right

I think that it's just hybrid chicks, slow-feathering breeds crossed with fast-feathering breeds.

 

[Evanloveschickens]

Feather sexing only works when you cross a fast feathering breed rooster to a slow feathering breed hen.
Feather growth rate is sex linked so it works with crossing breeds like any other kind of sex links.
Doesn't work on pure breeds.

These are not pure breeds as far as I know.

 

[The Moonshiner]

Was just explaining that for info purposes since people were bringing up some breeds it works on while others it doesn't.
Was not saying these chicks were pure. But with the OPs chicks being mixes of unknown breeds its not going to work on them either.

 

[ronott1]

Was just explaining that for info purposes since people were bringing up some breeds it works on while others it doesn't.
Was not saying these chicks were pure. But with the OPs chicks being mixes of unknown breeds its not going to work on them either.

X2!

Feather sexing is a sex linked cross. It will not work for mutts-- It will be a coin toss odds-- every guess will have a 50% chance of being correct

 

[Evanloveschickens]

Was just explaining that for info purposes since people were bringing up some breeds it works on while others it doesn't.
Was not saying these chicks were pure. But with the OPs chicks being mixes of unknown breeds its not going to work on them either.

Okay thank you! The mixes for one is white leghorn Ameraucana.

 

[Evanloveschickens]

X2!

Feather sexing is a sex linked cross. It will not work for mutts-- It will be a coin toss odds-- every guess will have a 50% chance of being correct

Okay thanks! Do you know any other methods to try to identify the gender of my chicks?