Help sexing 12 week old polish bantams

[partridge35]

Please could someone more knowledgeable than me please help me sex these bantams? They have just had their second jeuvenile molt and I have a nasty feeling that the White crested black is beginning to look a little cockerelish... Many thanks!

 

[Tanichca]

Well, the crests look full, soft and round, not spiky and straight-up. The combs and faces, what you can see of them, look pale. I'd say these are girls!

 

[partridge35]

Oh great, thanks. I hope you're right - I just thought I spotted maybe hackle feathers in the crest? But I may be paranoid - I only have the two and live in the city so would need to get rid of a cockerel. There certainly aren't any wattles worth mentioning.

 

[Tanichca]

Oh great, thanks. I hope you're right - I just thought I spotted maybe hackle feathers in the crest? But I may be paranoid - I only have the two and live in the city so would need to get rid of a cockerel. There certainly aren't any wattles worth mentioning.

Hackles are on the neck, anyway. Cockerels will have mohawk crests usually, straight-up and spiky as all get out. And their faces would be much, much redder with wattles and combs definitely visible.

 

[Wyandottes7]

Those are all pullets. Males usually have spikier crests and larger, redder combs and wattles.

 

[BantamLover21]

Those are all pullets. Males usually have spikier crests and larger, redder combs and wattles.

Agreed.