Help to sex young Sussex 12 weeks

[RcoM]

I think they are pullets.

Thanks Chicalina! Wondering why you say that? Compared to my big, well developed 12 week chicks, both hens and roosters, I find them more like my hens. But these are not from the same genetics at all I guess?

 

[RcoM]

And just for everyone's update, my friend said she saw rooster-like behaviour today: running rings around each other with a neck flare warning. We do see that from bossy pullets too, though...

 

[Chicken_Obsesser]

I'm going to say the one in the third picture is a cockerel, the other one is a pullet.

 

[Seaslug]

So both A and B seem to have rounded white areas of the feathers around the black pointed coloring of the same feather. Or are those not the correct feathers to be looking at?

 

[CascadiaRiver]

So both A and B seem to have rounded white areas of the feathers around the black pointed coloring of the same feather. Or are those not the correct feathers to be looking at?

The saddle feathers will be emerging from underneath that poof of feathers as they mature

 

[RcoM]

So both A and B seem to have rounded white areas of the feathers around the black pointed coloring of the same feather. Or are those not the correct feathers to be looking at?

Yes I agree. They do. I am not sure which feathers "count" so to speak.

 

[RcoM]

The saddle feathers will be emerging from underneath that poof of feathers as they mature

Thanks. That's what I thought. By 13 weeks would we see it?

 

[CascadiaRiver]

Thanks. That's what I thought. By 13 weeks would we see it?

I would check underneath the poof, I would expect to see them in by 15-16 weeks for sure, here's some of new feathers that haven't formed a "true saddle" yet

https://www.backyardchickens.com/th...athers-just-as-they-start-to-come-in.1662002/

 

[RcoM]

I would check underneath the poof, I would expect to see them in by 15-16 weeks for sure, here's some of new feathers that haven't formed a "true saddle" yet

https://www.backyardchickens.com/th...athers-just-as-they-start-to-come-in.1662002/

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Thanks. That helps. Most of mine are fast developers and it tends to be "all over" development too. I think this woman's chicks are slower by comparison.

 

[RcoM]

I would check underneath the poof, I would expect to see them in by 15-16 weeks for sure, here's some of new feathers that haven't formed a "true saddle" yet

https://www.backyardchickens.com/th...athers-just-as-they-start-to-come-in.1662002/

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Hi! Just another question as I was looking at my older rooster today. Do they first form from halfway down the back along the spine? Do they go all the way to the tail or stop before it? I think I was looking too close to the tail...