Gender and age help!!!

[ButtonquailGirl14]

Your first posts math puts her at just over a month BUT her feathering and size look more like between 8 and 10 weeks.

but does the first pic look like a 5-7 week old chick???

 

[21hens-incharge]

but does the first pic look like a 5-7 week old chick???

Nope. Not at all. Your first pic of when you got the chick it looks like a week old baby.

Are you sure it has been just 3 weeks that you have had that bird? Time can slip by us sometimes.

 

[ButtonquailGirl14]

Nope. Not at all. Your first pic of when you got the chick it looks like a week old baby.

Are you sure it has been just 3 weeks that you have had that bird? Time can slip by us sometimes.

i am, i wrote it down on my calender as soon as i got home, that was the 3rd of may.

 

[chuckachucka]

I would say the first pic looks maybe two weeks old tops, cant see the feather developmemt enough to be sure. Which makes the chick around 6 weeks. 5-6 conservatively. And at that age it is most likely a girl. However males dont develop pointy hackle and sickle feathers until at least 3 months old so before that sexing is based on comb size and colour and wattle size. Combs and wattles can pink up and still be a girl but if they get red and GROW then they are almost certainly a boy.

Also i have found that the redness of cockerel combs is more of a bright almost purplish red, whereas pullet combs can get colour but it is usually an orangey or pale pinkish red until they are much older.

 

[21hens-incharge]

https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/cockerel-or-pullet-4-week-old-buff-black-orpingtons.890875/

This thread has really good pics of buff orpington chicks.
the chicks in the linked thread look like one month old chicks.


Really weird to have your chick looking so much further along.

 

[ButtonquailGirl14]

I would say the first pic looks maybe two weeks old tops, cant see the feather developmemt enough to be sure. Which makes the chick around 6 weeks. 5-6 conservatively. And at that age it is most likely a girl. However males dont develop pointy hackle and sickle feathers until at least 3 months old so before that sexing is based on comb size and colour and wattle size. Combs and wattles can pink up and still be a girl but if they get red and GROW then they are almost certainly a boy.

Also i have found that the redness of cockerel combs is more of a bright almost purplish red, whereas pullet combs can get colour but it is usually an orangey or pale pinkish red until they are much older.

Thanks! here is a better pic of him first day.

 

[ButtonquailGirl14]

https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/cockerel-or-pullet-4-week-old-buff-black-orpingtons.890875/

This thread has really good pics of buff orpington chicks.
the chicks in the linked thread look like one month old chicks.


Really weird to have your chick looking so much further along.

I know! its like its on growth hormones!!! or a Cornish!!! this is her 3 days later from the from the first pic!
it just doesn't add up!

 

[chuckachucka]

Thanks! here is a better pic of him first day.View attachment 1403592 View attachment 1403593

Yep looks around ten days to two weeks old there. By one week old they usually have about the end quarter of their wing feathers in. By three weeks they have quite a bit of body feathers coming in on chest and back. So she is somewhere in the middle. I have found my chicks often have full body feathers by six weeks. At five weeks they are still getting their head feathers in.