My chicks

[curious chickee]

My chick are now three weeks old and spending time in their coop. Some are easily able to tell gender others are making me wait.

Sunny, buff Wyandotte (pullet?)

Big bird, buff cochin (cockerel)

Porridge, EE (pullet?)

Oatmeal, EE (pullet?)

Pepper, barred rock, (pullet)

Goldie, buff Wyandotte, (pullet?)

Cinnamon, RIR, (?)

Cherry, RIR, (?)

Plus we also have four barred rock cockerels and an Ameracauna pullet who were being camera shy

 

[BantamLover21]

My chick are now three weeks old and spending time in their coop. Some are easily able to tell gender others are making me wait.
Pullet.
Sunny, buff Wyandotte (pullet?)
Cockerel.
Big bird, buff cochin (cockerel)
Probably a pullet.
Porridge, EE (pullet?)
Pullet.
Oatmeal, EE (pullet?)
Pullet.
Pepper, barred rock, (pullet)
Pullet.
Goldie, buff Wyandotte, (pullet?)
Looks like a pullet for now, but I'm not 100% sure.
Cinnamon, RIR, (?)
Pullet.
Cherry, RIR, (?)

Plus we also have four barred rock cockerels and an Ameracauna pullet who were being camera shy

 

[21hens-incharge]

X2 with the guesses above.

 

[Wyandottes7]

x3

 

[curious chickee]

Sweet, that would mean only 5 cockerels. (4 barred and 1 cochin (keeping).) Plus we have four more sexed pullets at 1 week old. Best results from feed store free straight run 3/7 pullets.

 

[curious chickee]

Looks like cinnamon might be a cockerel, comb getting bigger and turning pink. Cherry still has itty bitty tail feathers (same size as my 1 week old pullet), but comb getting bigger and I see hints of pink.

 

[21hens-incharge]

Bummer. I wondered a bit about those huge feet and legs on Cherry.

 

[curious chickee]

Here is cinnamon, 4 weeks old, comb getting bigger and turning pink, pink waddles, plus I can see som black shiny green feathers on tail, and wings
So is this chick a cockerel or am I paranoid.

 

[21hens-incharge]

I still think it may be an early developing pullet. The comb on a male should be a bit larger at 4 weeks.

 

[curious chickee]

Thanks, I hope so, she is a sexed pullet but both of my RIR look so different feathering from each but have same combs, I really hope both are girls, I couldn't tell they look so different from my young Barred Rocks which were easy to sex. Does this mean she might begin to lay earlier and if so how soon.