Guess Chicks Gender and Breed (Just For Fun)

[Pigeony]

Thank you! I know I'm partial to them .

I'm certain #4 is a cockerel and #3 is a pullet, and like 50/50 on #5 being a cockerel.

#4, has been crowing up a storm since he learned how the other day, so I can't deny that one any longer. So he's officially been name changed to "a boy named sue rose". LOL.

#3, "George"/"Georgia" has one of the lighter colored and smaller combs now, and other than some pointier tail feathers than the other girls, they have all stayed really straight. Her neck feathers are also rounder than they kinda look, just cause the white/black constrast kinda gives an optial illusion to hide the real edges.

#5, I flip flop on every other glance at him/her . The red shoulders, the large legs/feet, and a single feathers that ALMOST curls, kinda makes me lean more towards cockerel. Though, the comb litterally stopped growing, and it's just not getting much wider or redder. It's probably more in the midrange of "pink" in comparison to even the other hens. It's also only a single row, where #4 is def starting to get some of the sides coming in. (all the other girls only have 1 row). The last thing is just that the saddle feathers seem to be coming in much more rounded than #4.

Though, told my mom, we will know once #5 starts to crow or lay eggs And we don't have to really figure it out until they start fighting and/or mating. I've planned on keeping only 1 rooster, but she's kinda partial to all of them, so I told her if fate smiles on us, and they seem to fit well enough we won't mess with it too much. Though, I don't want an aggressive rooster, and I don't want them fighting/mating to stress out the hens.

#5 is 100% male, that rust red is growing in the pattern of male-specific EE feathering.

 

[ColoradoChicken89]

#5 is 100% male, that rust red is growing in the pattern of male-specific EE feathering.

yeah, tbh that is what made me assume cockerel early on, just because that started to show within the first few weeks. There are some other signs too. Though, I do have one friend who has a EE hen with rust in the male pattern, so I kinda keep up hope. Though, I know it's not very common... lol.

 

[Pigeony]

yeah, tbh that is what made me assume cockerel early on, just because that started to show within the first few weeks. There are some other signs too. Though, I do have one friend who has a EE hen with rust in the male pattern, so I kinda keep up hope. Though, I know it's not very common... lol.

Hens that have rusty red patterns in their feathers don't develop it in the same way. They have red as a component of their coloring, but it's more evenly distributed, less specifically concentrated on the back of the bird, and maybe a shade or two lighter. That deep-red, uneven, blotchy splattering specifically across the shoulders and upper wings is only found in males.