Gender guess 4 week Barnevelder

[Jayteetee]

Guys! Please tell me this is my imagination! Of my four 4-week old blue Barnie “sexed pullets”, 1 is a boy. I’m okay with that. But what about the others?? Tell me I’m just being paranoid!

Cloudy is 100% male. No doubt. In spite of the breast pattern.
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I get it. It happens. Hatcheries promise 90% accuracy.

Foggy I’m pretty sure is an actual girl in spite of the fact that her breast is solid black. She has the smallest and yellowest comb of them all.
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It’s Hazy and Misty that have me worried. Their combs are similar is size. One has a pinkish hue coming in to the comb. The other does not. I can’t remember which is which and it’s hard to tell in these photos. Do these look like pullets to you?

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Hmm it’s hard to tel!
Can you try and get some more closeup photos of comb & wattles for the two in question? For Hazy & Misty?

 

[Jayteetee]

Hmm it’s hard to tel!
Can you try and get some more closeup photos of comb & wattles for the two in question? For Hazy & Misty?

Photos without the sun behind them… sometimes the sun makes the combs look more than they are yet.

 

[Lucky Joe]

Hmm it’s hard to tel!
Can you try and get some more closeup photos of comb & wattles for the two in question? For Hazy & Misty?

It is kinda hard to tell right now, but right now they look like pullets to me. A healthy chick will still have a pink or red face regardless of sex, but those combs look pretty thin to me. You'll know for sure in a month. Either way, they're beautiful chicks. Good luck.

 

[Fluster Cluck Acres]

Hmm it’s hard to tel!
Can you try and get some more closeup photos of comb & wattles for the two in question? For Hazy & Misty?

Every time I try to get a pic, there’s either too much or not enough light, lol!

I just moved them out to the big run, and the brooder or little chick area is under the roofed portion, so now my pics are going to be dark and probably too backlit for goood comparison. But here’s a couple more pics of Hazy (yellow banded).

 

[Fluster Cluck Acres]

Misty is refusing to come out of the brooder for pics. This is the best I could do. Misty is the chick whose comb is turning pinkish-orange. Her chest color I think indicates female, but then again my obvious male has a loudly patterned chest, too.

Just for fun here is Cloudy the male. I thought Barnevelder cockerels Weren’t supposed to have color on their chest, but he sure does. Unless he loses it when he grows in his big boy feathers.

 

[HorseGirlAbby]

Hazy and Misty look like pullets.

 

[Jayteetee]

I agree- Hazy & Misty look like pullets.. yay

 

[Fluster Cluck Acres]

I agree- Hazy & Misty look like pullets.. yay

I think you’re all right. I was freaking myself out prematurely!