Need help identifying and sexting my chicks! So glad to find I'm not alone!

[sareyah]

I was looking online for was to identify roosters vs hens. Someone was showing pictures of their feet. How is this a way to tell the sex? The feet look the same to me till the rooster gets the spur.

 

[howfunkyisurchicken]

Some folks say chicks with thicker legs and feet are cockerels. I say that's accurate about 50% of the time

 

[summerb123]

x3

x4

 

[ChickNanny13]

Redness & size of the comb/wattle early on, development of hackle & saddle feathering or wait for the egg or crow

 

[Dgrundy14]

I'm so excited about seeing #4! It looks just like my Blondie and I'm so excited to think she is a pullet.

 

[Gray Farms]

I was looking online for was to identify roosters vs hens. Someone was showing pictures of their feet. How is this a way to tell the sex? The feet look the same to me till the rooster gets the spur.

Hens can grow spurs too.

 

[Gray Farms]

Some folks say chicks with thicker legs and feet are cockerels. I say that's accurate about 50% of the time

x2, 50% is on the high side as well I think. Unless somebody has been doing it for a long time, and has had lots of experience at it.

 

[sareyah]

noooo lol, I will never figure this out until they are full grown. I was watching a clip on a rooster who was originally a hen but had some internal damage and switched sexes. Now the only thing is she/he was infertal. If it wasn't already confusing enough. I wish it was just as easy as puppies and kittens.

 

[sareyah]

I like for the idea of wait for the egg. That's a dead giveaway huh lol.

 

[Gray Farms]

Ya getting eggs from roosters is like getting milk from bulls.....Only for very worthy causes. lol