Guess That Gender - Hubble’s Growth

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Hubble here was hatched April 26th, so that makes them 3 weeks old. I know it’s almost impossible to tell this early, but I was wanting to get the ball rolling on this little poll. They’re a mix breed that came from a blue egg, so their mom is either one of my Easter Eggers or Crean Legbar and the dad is…who knows, I have 7 roosters, lol. I think I narrowed it down to my salmon faverolle because Hubble has an extra toe on one foot and lightly feathered legs. Also, don’t mind the blu-kote staining their down. They got attacked by another broody hen like 4 days after they hatched which I had another thread for.

 

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[Rhodebar Lover]

Just kind of thinking— I know a lot of times with mix breeds that red patches on the wings is usually a solid indicator of the chicken in question being a rooster, yeah?

Precisely! It almost always indicates cockerel. Every once in a while you'll wind up with a pullet with some reddish shoulders but typically it's much more of a "pattern" than a patch of splotch. I usually see the exception in Easter Eggers and it also occurs in Red Shouldered Yokohamas. Here's a nice comparison of the sexes showing how patchy male colored shoulders are versus the rare female colored shoulder that has some pattern mixed in! Hopefully this helps some!

 

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Hubble is 19 weeks old today

 

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Just kind of thinking— I know a lot of times with mix breeds that red patches on the wings is usually a solid indicator of the chicken in question being a rooster, yeah?

 

[RoostersAreAwesome]

The chick has enough red that he should be genetically gold, which should not come from a Salmon Faverolles rooster (who is genetically silver.)

That amount of red is actually to be expected from a salmon faverolles cross, since they have an excessive amount of autosomal (non-sexlinked) red. This chick is either genetically silver/silver or gold/silver, since his white feathering cannot be due to dominant white because of his black feathers. Also, a gold/silver split cockerel can definitely appear mostly gold.

He is a salmon faverolles x Easter egger. The faverolles is not pure for the white skin gene and EEs, being mixed, can easily produce yellow-skinned chicks. (Green legs are actually yellow legs with a dark wash over them, and many of the potential EE mothers have green legs.)

 

[RoostersAreAwesome]

Do you think these are his parents? I’m not good with genetics or anything, but for some reason I think Peaches is the most likely EE mother.

Peaches has dominant white, so she’s less likely to be the mom than these other two EEs.

However, there’s still a chance Peaches is the mother if she isn’t pure for dominant white.

 

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but still probably cockerel because of course the only two chicks I kept from this year’s hatch can’t be both girls

 

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Because here’s the only other chick I kept from this year’s hatch. Oppie is younger than Hubble, though. 6 weeks.

 

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almost jinxed myself. there was a red-tailed hawk munching on something in the ditch coming up the hill when I got hone this evening and Oppie was missing at the nightly headcount. So, obviously I thought she was what was being munched on after I was practically throwing chickens off the roosts to see if she was tucked under one of their wings. Nope, dumbass got herself stuck under one of the food bowls in the yard. She must’ve stood on the side while it was empty and it just flipped over on her.