Feather sexing Polish chicks?

[PrincessKiara]

I think I read that Polish can't be feather sexed. But I hatched two today and I'm almost positive they're male and female according to wing feathers. Is this a thing in Polish?

Suspected male first with yellow wing. Suspected female with white wing.

 

[Chookchicken]

Post a photo of their heads. Without hands. Polish are good that you can sex depending on what their head looks like at 1 day old, or as soon as they are dry.

 

[PrincessKiara]

 

[Chookchicken]

The yellow one is definitely a boy. I can’t really see the second one though, but from what I can tell I’d say it is a she. You can see the difference of them from this photo:

The one on the left is a boy (less fluffy head).
The one on the right is a girl (more fluffy head).
Also before anyone gets angry at me yes I did take this off google because I have none of my own.

 

[PrincessKiara]

The yellow one is definitely a boy. I can’t really see the second one though, but from what I can tell I’d say it is a she. You can see the difference of them from this photo:View attachment 2568847
The one on the left is a boy (less fluffy head).
The one on the right is a girl (more fluffy head).
Also before anyone gets angry at me yes I did take this off google because I have none of my own.

Thank you so much!! Yes, white and black is definitely less poofy than yellow and black <3

 

[JacinLarkwell]

I've never heard of that before. Time to go stare at baby heads

 

[PrincessKiara]

The yellow one is definitely a boy. I can’t really see the second one though, but from what I can tell I’d say it is a she. You can see the difference of them from this photo:View attachment 2568847
The one on the left is a boy (less fluffy head).
The one on the right is a girl (more fluffy head).
Also before anyone gets angry at me yes I did take this off google because I have none of my own.

I notice you said yellow is a boy...the one facing head on in the pic is the more poofy of the two lol

 

[PrincessKiara]

 

[NatJ]

I think I read that Polish can't be feather sexed. But I hatched two today and I'm almost positive they're male and female according to wing feathers. Is this a thing in Polish?

There's a gene that makes chickens grow their feathers slower than normal. You can't tell them apart after they finish growing up. Either gender can grow their feathers at either speed.

If you have both feathering speeds in the same breed, you can do the right cross to make feather-sexable chicks. It can happen by deliberate planning, or just by chance.

Most Polish chicks are not the right cross to produce feather-sexable chicks. Whether yours are, I don't know.

Did you raise the parents yourself, from baby chicks? If the father grew his feathers at a normal rate, but the mother took forever to grow hers, then you have the right combination of genes for feather sexable chicks. The difference in feathering speeds is most obvious when the chicks are several weeks old: one set is almost fully feathered, while the other looks mostly naked. But the difference can be seen when they are just hatched, which is where all those guides on the internet come from.

 

[PrincessKiara]

There's a gene that makes chickens grow their feathers slower than normal. You can't tell them apart after they finish growing up. Either gender can grow their feathers at either speed.

If you have both feathering speeds in the same breed, you can do the right cross to make feather-sexable chicks. It can happen by deliberate planning, or just by chance.

Most Polish chicks are not the right cross to produce feather-sexable chicks. Whether yours are, I don't know.

Did you raise the parents yourself, from baby chicks? If the father grew his feathers at a normal rate, but the mother took forever to grow hers, then you have the right combination of genes for feather sexable chicks. The difference in feathering speeds is most obvious when the chicks are several weeks old: one set is almost fully feathered, while the other looks mostly naked. But the difference can be seen when they are just hatched, which is where all those guides on the internet come from.

Thank you! No, I traded for the eggs. I did not meet the parents.

So there's no way of sexing these?