I have “4 Silver laced wyandottes” and I need help sexing one of them.

[Paradisefarmshomestead]

That is a great looking rooster. It looks kind of like a Millie Fleur SLW cross don't it? What a pretty bird!!

Thank you! I have no idea honestly, I was purchasing mainly for the laying pullets. I just thought they also looked really pretty! The pullet looks like this (attached).

 

[drumstick diva]

she is beautiful - I hope she will make you proud with her laying and matching hatching eggs.

 

[feathermaid]

Thank you! I have no idea honestly, I was purchasing mainly for the laying pullets. I just thought they also looked really pretty! The pullet looks like this (attached).

She looks like a very pretty Easter Egger! Except for her bright yellow legs...?
I don't know what it is about certain "breeders" selling their mystery birds and cockerels as purebred pullets. I have heard this exact situation happening countless times. A true breeder will know exactly what they have, and be able to cull their unwanted cockerels themselves instead of pawning them off on others, or at least be honest and sell them as straight run. I personally would never trust a backyard breeder or their biosecurity either.

You might be better off keeping just one cockerel and getting more pullets. Here's a good article to help you decide: https://www.backyardchickens.com/articles/selecting-good-flock-roosters.74719/

 

[Paradisefarmshomestead]

She looks like a very pretty Easter Egger! Except for her bright yellow legs...?
I don't know what it is about certain "breeders" selling their mystery birds and cockerels as purebred pullets. I have heard this exact situation happening countless times. A true breeder will know exactly what they have, and be able to cull their unwanted cockerels themselves instead of pawning them off on others, or at least be honest and sell them as straight run. I personally would never trust a backyard breeder or their biosecurity either.

You might be better off keeping just one cockerel and getting more pullets. Here's a good article to help you decide: https://www.backyardchickens.com/articles/selecting-good-flock-roosters.74719/

This is really great! Like I said they have been very aggressive to my brooding hen. My father who visits the chickens more often than I had told me they don’t even let her eat. I’m going to be more attentive the next few days and determine who has the worst behavior and separate them and decide how to go about removing them permanently from my flock. We are also getting 20 red sex linked pullets the end of March. As well as picking up 8 straight run chicks from a seller close to me. I know they will not have been sexed and therefore not unfairly contain higher # of roosters.

 

[Rammy]

That is, first of all, not a SILVER Laced Wyandotte. It is a Rooster, IMO.

The rooster looks just like my SLW rooster. I got him from Ideal Hatchery. Nicest rooster Ive had so far. Not aggressive towards the ladies or me. I did have one rooster who was overly aggressive with the hens. Feathers all over the place. At first I thought something was trying to get them until I saw him in action. He was invited to Sunday dinner.

 

[OhZark Biddies]

The cockerel in question looks like it could be the result of a silver laced Wyandotte with a blue laced red Wyandotte, I like his colors.

The pullet is pretty! With her laced feathers, slight beard/muff, yellow legs and green eggs she’s likely an Easter Egger x Wyandotte cross.

Here’s a similar looking rooster that is a slw x blrw just for comparison

Source
http://www.the-coop.org/forums/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=114253

 

[ColtHandorf]

Definitely a rooster. I would hazard a guess looking at photos of the three birds you've shown that they have some Silver-laced Wyandotte in their heritage, but none of them appear to be pure SLW. The blue on the male in question is quite pretty though. I imagine he and the pullet would throw some pretty babies.

 

[WindingRoad]

Thanks! This makes me so sad. When she sold them to us she said they had even been sexed at a local fair at 4 months old and were all hens. It was our first foray into buying chickens and we got easily duped! Thanks for this!

When I bought my 2 SLW at 16 weeks I reached out to them and they squatted. Might not be a definitive trait. But it worked for me. I'm getting eggs now. Good luck. Sorry if you didn't want roosters.

 

[sylviethecochin]

Here's how you can tell (besides comb growth) At twelve weeks, pointed hackle feathers should be beginning to show in the butt area. At sixteen weeks, they're obvious.

As someone who frequents auction barns, I can tell you that this sort of thing happens a lot. (I like to play the part of poor, surprised, oblivious type who doesn't know how people could be so mistaken, and protest the mislabelling loudly. My father tells me that I'm going to get beaten up someday.)

 

[Crazy for Chickens!]

Cockerel/Rooster