Fertile eggs?

[Cool_Catrules456]

Healthy chick sexs as female.
Weeker as male. ( got them in a area to where I could see)
Female seems to be larger while the male seems smaller. Both have pink feet, beards and muffs. Male is more talkative than the female.

 

[Cool_Catrules456]

Healthy chick sexs as female.
Weeker as male. ( got them in a area to where I could see)
Female seems to be larger while the male seems smaller. Both have pink feet, beards and muffs. Male is more talkative than the female.

I will be able to tell them apart by one thing, one is yellow, female. The other is white, male

 

[Cool_Catrules456]

Weeker chick is not going to make it. I can tell. Something is wrong. Its head keeps going to its back. It has no balance. Both hatched only hours apart.

Edit: little one seems slightly stronger, I will add some apple cyder vinager and (very little) honey. To give them a boost. I think the chick starter I have is medicated. So that should help as well.

 

[NatJ]

Does the size of the chick matter? The silver orpington chick is way larger than the brown orpington chick. I just find it odd how they both have the same mother and father, yet look so different.

Male chicks tend to grow larger & faster than female chicks, but there are enough exceptions that I would not try to sex them purely by size. A female of one breed can often grow faster than a male of another breed, and even when they are the same breed there are some females that grow faster than some males. And when either or both parents are mixed breeds, it's pretty common for chicks to grow at different speeds because they inherit different size/growth genes.

Heres how my favorite one is coming along, I love the neck coloring on them. Hoping this one is female to be able to keep them!

That color pattern makes me think it's female. I suppose we'll know for sure in a few more weeks

 

[Cool_Catrules456]

Male chicks tend to grow larger & faster than female chicks, but there are enough exceptions that I would not try to sex them purely by size. A female of one breed can often grow faster than a male of another breed, and even when they are the same breed there are some females that grow faster than some males. And when either or both parents are mixed breeds, it's pretty common for chicks to grow at different speeds because they inherit different size/growth genes.


That color pattern makes me think it's female. I suppose we'll know for sure in a few more weeks

Thank you, I will keep the size thing in mind, I know when they get to be adults you can sex on size. (When they are normal sized birds and not large chickens)

And I was thinking pullet too, the fact is it mostly silver and white just makes me think female, I think the males would get red in by now with how fast they are featehring. Also there is zero color on the comb its all yellow. We should be able to sex this one next week. They are the fastest one. (They are the silver orpington)

 

[NatJ]

And I was thinking pullet too, the fact is it mostly silver and white just makes me think female, I think the males would get red in by now with how fast they are featehring.

I was going by how the colors are arranged on the body, rather than silver vs. gold or red.

It's similar to the female pattern of Black Breasted Red or Silver Duckwing (those two are the same pattern, just with gold/red vs. silver). Your chick might not have exactly that pattern, depending on what other genes are present, but I think it's similar.

Also there is zero color on the comb its all yellow. We should be able to sex this one next week. They are the fastest one. (They are the silver orpington)

 

[Wonder Quails]

For the first few eggs, They do seem like they're missing an air sack. Did they hatch though?

 

[Cool_Catrules456]

For the first few eggs, They do seem like they're missing an air sack. Did they hatch though?

Nope not those ones, but I did end up with chicks! It just took awhile to find ones from the hens he mated with! I ended up with three white leghorn crosses, two buff orpington crosses, one SLW and lastly one GLW cross. So far (the only one old enough to be sexed) the SLW chick is a pullet. (7 weeks old no signs of male traits) the others are half way to five, and two have just been born. (One of the white leghorn chicks (newborn ones) is really weak, so fingers crossed it makes it through the week. (Basically safe zone in my experiences.)

 

[Cool_Catrules456]

I was going by how the colors are arranged on the body, rather than silver vs. gold or red.

It's similar to the female pattern of Black Breasted Red or Silver Duckwing (those two are the same pattern, just with gold/red vs. silver). Your chick might not have exactly that pattern, depending on what other genes are present, but I think it's similar.

I’m trying to learn easy ways to sex easter eggers the rust red is a some what reliable way, or so I’m told. Only if the bird is not allready brown though, then its not. So sexing the buff chick this way it out. If you look up easter egger roosters, (and they are not allready red/brown) you will probably find most of they have the red feathers on the shoulders/wings.

 

[Wonder Quails]

How many chicks do you have now?