Mom's Chicks--Pullet or Roo

[PhlyinPheBee]

Here are some shots of my mom's SLW. 3.5 weeks old. What do we look for to see what sex it is. They would not be very still.

 

[debakadeb]

They look like pullets to me. My SLW roosters had a very red comb by the time they were 3 weeks old. I'm not really very good at guessing though. Some of the roosters really just stand out as roosters -- it's so much easier to tell when you have several of the same breed.

 

[PhlyinPheBee]

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Funny that you say that. She has 4. With the hopes of getting 2. She said that they all look almost alike.

 

[PhlyinPheBee]

 

[Sock Puppet]

Here is my SLW Roo at 2 weeks...

Here he is at 3 weeks...

I could tell when he was 1 1/2 weeks that he was a roo.

Dont know if you can use these pics to compare or not.

 

[Debi214]

See the length of the wing feathers in your photos? That indicates a female. This is probably the only breed that I can say for sure whether male or female. I have tried with other breeds but not to 99% accuracy.

 

[PhlyinPheBee]

My Mom will be so happy!!!!!!!

 

[Tala]

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Length of the wing feathers, huh??

I noticed that my cockerels DO have short stubby little wings, all the pullets have wing feathers out past their butts.

 

[Sock Puppet]

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Soooo does that apply to all breeds, that you've noticed?

Or just the SLW's.

I noticed my EE has the longest wings for a chick. The other ones are not so long, now Im worried

 

[PhlyinPheBee]

Well I know that I have used the feather sexing for 2 different batches of frizzles and it worked. I have 3 RIR chicks and 2 have way more wing growth than the other. So I am calling it 2 pullets and 1 roo.