Help sexing baby chicks?!

[LemonyCatapult]

Hi there, would love some more guesses on the sexes of my three chicks.

First orange chick is 2 weeks old
Gray/yellow chick is 3 days
Black chick is 5 days

 

[AlleysChicks]

Way way way too young to tell gender. New full body pics at 6 weeks may shed some light on their gender.

 

[BullChick]

The 3-day olds. Any with feathers on their wings are girls. Boys mature slower. This can be debated all people want, but it’s not much different than an ultrasound. Even with a picture, the doctor is sometimes wrong... both ways.

 

[Melky]

Hi there, would love some more guesses on the sexes of my three chicks.

First orange chick is 2 weeks old
Gray/yellow chick is 3 days
Black chick is 5 days

I won’t hazard a guess too young. Must wait. Welcome!

 

[oregonkat]

With my last hatch of Barnevelder chicks, the two that had prominent/long primary feathers (at the tip of the wing like your last pic) turned out to be cockerels! As others have said it is very early to tell but I thought I'd throw this out there for you.

 

[aart]

With my last hatch of Barnevelder chicks, the two that had prominent/long primary feathers (at the tip of the wing like your last pic) turned out to be cockerels! As others have said it is very early to tell but I thought I'd throw this out there for you.

I thought wing sexing only worked on a few very specific breeds/crosses?

 

[LemonyCatapult]

With my last hatch of Barnevelder chicks, the two that had prominent/long primary feathers (at the tip of the wing like your last pic) turned out to be cockerels! As others have said it is very early to tell but I thought I'd throw this out there for you.

Thanks! I’m just curious what people’s guesses are and why, we are keeping all the chicks either way and I’m excited to see what they turn out to be

 

[oregonkat]

I thought wing sexing only worked on a few very specific breeds/crosses?

Yes, too true but as I was researching a little bit about this when the Barnies were babies, I came across some literature (unknown source at present but I can try to find it) stating that USUALLY the longer primaries indicate a cockerel and I think I posted about this on the Barnie page that I either started or joined , with pics of the chicks and at 4 weeks the two with the most prominent primary feathers, turned out to be cocks.
I have not looked at the wings of any of my other chicks as I didn't ever consider wing sexing them and I really have no idea if this was a complete fluke with the Barnevelder chicks.
@LemonyCatapult, if you can, and are interested in posting, please revisit this and let us know who is who. I would be very interested in knowing if that chick in the last pic. turns out to be a cock!

 

[Crazy for Chickens!]

Too young.

Post pics of each ones comb at six weeks. Keep an eye on the black one though, you may be able to sex it earlier, if it is a cockerel. It had quite the comb.

 

[LemonyCatapult]

In case anyone was curious, the red chick and the black chick turned out to be pullets and the black/white one is a cockerel