hen or roo

[hailie16727]

chick1

chick 2

 

[Yard Farmer]

Those two are still really young to be sexing them.
Wait till they're about a month - a month and a half old.
Then you can get a more accurate guess.

 

[Yard Farmer]

What breed are they?

 

[hailie16727]

they are both auracanas

 

[McChooky]

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The 1st one should be a pullet (2 layers of feathers all the way across the wing) Cockerels don't fill in as fast and aren't as full(notice the gap?)

 

[Chicken_tiger_catt]

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Come back in 2-4 weeks with pictures of the full chicken.

 

[hailie16727]

The 1st one should be a pullet (2 layers of feathers all the way across the wing) Cockerels don't fill in as fast and aren't as full(notice the gap?)

they are a few days apart aha but chick 2 has tail feathers first!

 

[hailie16727]

Come back in 2-4 weeks with pictures of the full chicken.

will do! i will make sure to reply too you then!

 

[McChooky]

they are a few days apart aha but chick 2 has tail feathers first!

I've never raised this breed so trying to sex them isn't a good idea

 

[NatJ]

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Feather sexing only works right if the chicks come from the correct cross: they need a fast-feathering father and a slow-feathering mother, which produces fast-feathering daughters and slow-feathering sons.

The stuff all over the internet about one or two rows of feathering is about distinguishing fast feathering from slow feathering at a young age (as compared with waiting a few weeks and sorting them into females who are mostly feathered and males who are mostly naked if they have the fast/slow feathering genes, or waiting a few more weeks and sorting them by comb size & color if they do not come from the correct cross of fast/slow feathering.)

Some entire chicken breeds are pure for fast feathering, others are pure for slow feathering, some are mixed. When they are mixed, you can find males with each feathering speed and females with each feathering speed. You only get feather-sexable chicks by making the correct mix. In that respect, it is just like gold/silver sexlinks or barred/not-barred sexlinks, that only work if someone makes the correct cross. Otherwise you can get any of the traits in males or in females.