Lavender Orpington Roo?

[Honeygizzards]

I have 2 Lavender Orpington at 1.5 weeks old. I got them from the local feed store at the same time. One has much smaller wings and no sign of a tail yet. Is there any possible chance of this little one being a pullet? I have also added a picture of their sibling for comparison. I just want to make sure/get outside opinions before rehoming him.

 

[JedJackson]

Those things you mentioned have no bearing on gender. 6 weeks is a good time to start trying to determine gender.

 

[ChickenShepherd_6116]

I'm sorry to say it's just too early to tell quite yet. Wait a few weeks and it will be easier; the older they are, the easier it is to tell.

 

[Honeygizzards]

Those things you mentioned have no bearing on gender. 6 weeks is a good time to start trying to determine gender.

So they could just be a late bloomer compared to their sibling? I’m ok with waiting if there’s hope yet!

 

[Honeygizzards]

Those things you mentioned have no bearing on gender. 6 weeks is a good time to start trying to determine gender.

I'm sorry to say it's just too early to tell quite yet. Wait a few weeks and it will be easier; the older they are, the easier it is to tell.

I'm sorry to say it's just too early to tell quite yet. Wait a few weeks and it will be easier; the older they are, the easier it is to tell.

That’s what I keep reading but just seeing them next to their sibling it’s just such a big difference.

 

[ChickenShepherd_6116]

So they could just be a late bloomer compared to their sibling? I’m ok with waiting if there’s hope yet!

There is definitely hope. Don't give up yet!

 

[tlcmurphy]

I got 2 Buff Orpingtons 5 years ago. One was huge compared to the other, and got a red comb and wattles earlier. Both pullets

 

[AinaWGSD]

How quickly a chick feathers is only an indicator of gender  IF they are specifically bred for feather sexing. It requires a specific combination of genes and most hatcheries aren't breeding for it.

I would be nervous too if I had one chick feathering that much slower, but 1.5 weeks really is too soon to tell unless you know for a fact that the breeder set up their pens to make feather sexable offspring. Otherwise both males and females can be slow feathering. Right now the only thing you can say for sure is that one chick is fast feathering and one chick is slow feathering.

 

[fluffycrow]

Feather growth says nothing about gender at this stage, especially when it isn’t bred for (which it isn’t, in your case). So the chance of either being pullets is the same as the day you got them.

Not sure if a visual would help to show how unreliable feather sexing is at this stage.

Notice the predominantly white chick compared to the other two. Not even close feather growth-wise, right? The wings don’t even cover half its body, and absolutely no tail. A definite cockerel with the logic you’ve been led to believe.
Well, this was her a year or so later.

Not only that, but her two fast feathering siblings both turned out to be cockerels. It really is that random!