Is their a way to sex 3wk old BCMs

[texaschickmama]

I just bought 19 C-1 Wade line BCMs and would like to see if their is a way to sex them. I know it's easier to sex 24 hr old chicks by wings, but these are 3 wks old. Anyone have a "trick"? I guess that's the million dollar question, huh? LOL............

 

[Dread Pirate Roberts]

I would expect that you could start spotting the roos any day now, eh?

I hatched five BCMs once and I was trippin' for the longest time because they all looked the same. Finally, at about 12 weeks, I figured it out...all girls.

 

[texaschickmama]

just by the combs?

 

[Dread Pirate Roberts]

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If you take a look at combs, legs and overall sizes, you can probably start sorting them into "definitely boys" and "maybe boys" and "hopefully girls".

 

[mstricer]

combs and size

 

[texaschickmama]

I'll go out tomorrow and sort. Hopefully, I'll have more pullets than cockerels, but we'll see. I'm going to be keeping 2 roos to grow out and see whose best, but the rest are going to have to go to a new home.