Gender guessing Wyandotte and Cochin bantam chicks (4 weeks)

[Martaals]

Hey! Family photo time! (gotta do it during nap time to get them all still at the same time haha, one dozed off though)

Actually they all did

Well, we've got a caring sister in the family

She has a funky eyeliner!

Hey mommy how about I sleep on you while you're bathing?

You're right, having my own spot is also comfortable in its own way!

But we are still a great team

Okay, which breed could this fluffy butt possibly belong to?

(this one is becoming a highly committed digger, so I barely get a look at the face anymore) but a few glimpses

Getting blacker every day

The photo bomber always looking into the camera:

The seagull look

But mostly still a baby chick look

Young and fearless

Cuties

 

[ChickenWhisperer101]

They all look like pullets to me! Here is my almost 4 week old bantam Cochin and I have suspicions that it’s a he because of the comb size at this age, but I could be wrong.

 

[Martaals]

They all look like pullets to me! Here is my almost 4 week old bantam Cochin and I have suspicions that it’s a he because of the comb size at this age, but I could be wrong.

Well, my black one also has a bit of a bigger comb than the other. But still very yellow looking so.... I'm hoping it stays like that

In the pictures yours looks a little pinkish, is it turning pink?

 

[ChickenWhisperer101]

Well, my black one also has a bit of a bigger comb than the other. But still very yellow looking so.... I'm hoping it stays like that

In the pictures yours looks a little pinkish, is it turning pink?

Yes it is, that’s why I have suspicions

 

[Martaals]

Yes it is, that’s why I have suspicions

Hmmm, well I guess for all of them we will just have to wait and see!

No roosters allowed here unfortunately, but we will anyway keep them all until there are any problems even if a cockerell reveals itself. But who knows, maybe we actually got 3/3 pullets! That is what we were hoping for in the first place but it would just be crazy luck. We had 6 eggs, so I was a bit bummed that the hatch rate was so low (although I suspect 2 of them were not fertilised).

 

[Martaals]

Alright, they are now past 6 weeks, and I am certain of 1 pullet. The two others I'm not so sure about...

I don't have many combs to compare with, but the black has a much bigger comb than that of the chocolate (which is very small) bit still staying orange. The wyandotte can supposedly be very tricky, but otherwise I would actually guess Cockerell. Besides having the most pink comb it's getting wattles and it is the most independent behaving.

A closer look at black bantam cochin (6 weeks and a day)

I see wattles

The pictures in the sun do look more colourful than in the inderct light.

Comparison with the other bantam cochin, both in the sun

I don't know what else to start looking at? Posture? Feather development? Typical posture oof Black chick:

Closer look at feathers

Okay, this is looking and acting so much like a pullet that I wouldn't believe if it she started crowing

But the most obvious one is the most boring to guess hihi

So the wyandotte seems like a bit of the odd one out, but maybe it's just not in the cochin club? It's like the others want to lay in the sun and this one can't sit still

Juhuuu?

Mommy ill just use you as a roost ok?

Posture is different but it's also not a fluffball breed, so I find it unreasonable to compare them. Our barnevelder ladies also have a higher stand

Comparing to the barnevelder bantam hens, the wyandotte bantam still has a very puffed out chest in my opinion?

and maybe someone can tell me something smart about feathers

By the way, mommy says that this is my food so get lost or else... She might spit fire.

 

[Martaals]

10 week update:

So today they are 10 weeks old and I thought I'd give a photo update. They have already a while ago moved over to the neighbour, to form their own little flock. Today we went and picked up Aart (mama hen), cause although she still allows them to try and squeeze underneath her in the night , they have become relatively independent. And she is more needed at her position as boss hen in our own flock (her return instantly harmonised our group, as hen #2 is not exactly a born leader).

But back to the chicks, I of course took some pictures!

From the left
The chocolate (mottled??) cochin, the columbian wyandotte and the black cochin on the right (all bantams).

Anyone wanna give a thought on gender?

The two cochins

Is she still looking to be mottled or simply chocolate?

Let's have some of the wyandotte

And all together (also with "mommy")

That's it for now! At least they are most certainly having a good time in their new backyard

 

[Painted Calls]

10 week update:

So today they are 10 weeks old and I thought I'd give a photo update. They have already a while ago moved over to the neighbour, to form their own little flock. Today we went and picked up Aart (mama hen), cause although she still allows them to try and squeeze underneath her in the night , they have become relatively independent. And she is more needed at her position as boss hen in our own flock (her return instantly harmonised our group, as hen #2 is not exactly a born leader).

But back to the chicks, I of course took some pictures!

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From the left
The chocolate (mottled??) cochin, the columbian wyandotte and the black cochin on the right (all bantams).

Anyone wanna give a thought on gender?

The two cochins
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That's it for now! At least they are most certainly having a good time in their new backyard

The Wyandotte and the black BC are cockerels.

The chocolate pullet turned out to be solid. No mottling.

 

[Martaals]

The Wyandotte and the black BC are cockerels.

The chocolate pullet turned out to be solid. No mottling.

Ah the wyandotte as well? I was suspecting black BC but thinking that the wyandotte would be difficult to tell for a while still. What gives the wyabdotte away?

 

[NatJ]

Anyone wanna give a thought on gender?

I think the chocolate is female and the other two are males.

Is she still looking to be mottled or simply chocolate?

Just looking at those photos, I'm leaning toward mottled, but I'm not positive.

Mottled chickens get more white each time they molt, so it will become more obvious over the next few years if she is.

Solid black or chocolate chickens often have some white feathers when they are young, that disappear as they grow up. So if she is not mottled, she will probably look completely chocolate the next time she molts.

(But then I looked back at the first photos in the thread, and I see that she had more obvious white then, so that would argue for her being not-mottled, since the amount of white is decreasing with age.)