Help! Gender Advice - 9 separate Chick pictures

[WhiteWaterChickens]

#9 mystery parents, was thinking pullet in comparison to the larger combed hatch mate but comb is wider and starting to have some colour so second guessing myself.

 

[WhiteWaterChickens]

Pics please!

Sorry! For organization I thought easiest to put a post for each chick and a number

 

[Acre4Me]

Sorry! For organization I thought easiest to put a post for each chick and a number

yes, it’s helpful to keep track of each!

 

[Acre4Me]

1,4,8,9 seem most like possible males.

nice chicks!!

 

[WhiteWaterChickens]

1,4,8,9 seem most like possible males.

nice chicks!!

thank you! And thank you for your guesses! So it’s not so much the size of the comb or the size of the comb onthe chicks parents (legbar vs EE) but the colouring?

 

[Acre4Me]

thank you! And thank you for your guesses! So it’s not so much the size of the comb or the size of the comb onthe chicks parents (legbar vs EE) but the colouring?

Yes, size of the comb can matter. At this age, lack of color is good (more likely female), presence of wattle growth often indicates male at this age...sometimes females get some color in their wattles, but usually no growth at such a young age. A Leghorn female develops a pretty good comb early on, but it is smaller than the males with less or no color, just as an example of comb growth. There are also a few breeds that can be feather sexed within the first few days and some that are sex linked - so their fluff color at hatch differ in some way. I'm not sure if a Legbar is sex-linked in any way.

 

[EthanH20]

#8 mystery parents, had 2 black spots on his back as a chick, lots of comb + wattle development so pretty confident it’s a cockerel? quite large

I’m a new chicken keeper, but I think that #7 and #8 might be white leghorns in which the hens also have quite large combs and wattles. I’m not saying they are male or female, just saying you might want to look into it! I have a 5 week old white leghorn in which I’m not sure the gender of either, but here’s a picture:

 

[WhiteWaterChickens]

thank you! Acre4me!

 

[WhiteWaterChickens]

I’m a new chicken keeper, but I think that #7 and #8 might be white leghorns in which the hens also have quite large combs and wattles. I’m not saying they are male or female, just saying you might want to look into it! I have a 5 week old white leghorn in which I’m not sure the gender of either, but here’s a picture:

Beautiful picture! thank you, maybe I’ll reach out To hatched the 6 chicks for me if they have leghorns!

 

[NatJ]

thank you! And thank you for your guesses! So it’s not so much the size of the comb or the size of the comb onthe chicks parents (legbar vs EE) but the colouring?

Size of comb can tell a lot when you're comparing among the same kind of chicken, at the same age. But some breeds naturally have larger combs than others, and some have combs of different shapes. #8 has a single comb, #9 has a pea comb--it's wider, lower, and differently shaped. That makes it hard to learn anything by comparing the two of them with each other. I think #5 with the very small comb has a pea comb as well.

Chicks that have a barred mother and a not-barred father can be sexed by color (the mother passes barring to her sons only). But a Cream Legbar father passes barring to both his sons and his daughters, so it won't help in sexing these chicks.

My guesses on gender:
1 male?
2 male??
3 female
4 male
5 ????
6 female
7 female
8 male
9 male?

The number of question marks is a marker for how unsure I am