Nevadans?

[chickee]

Those are pullets. If you see blue, then they are going to be blue wheatens. They will have blue tails and the wing bow will be blue.

Ok these are horrible cell phone pics and the chicks might still be too young to tell, but does anyone have a guess on the gender of these two? I was thinking both pullets, but now the feathers are gold on the tips and blue further down the shaft.

I might just have to wait until my nicer camera comes home.



This is the one that has blue further down the shaft.



On this one, the neck feathers are starting to grow in a darker brown, not pure gold.

 

[americanvalkyrie]

Those are pullets. If you see blue, then they are going to be blue wheatens. They will have blue tails and the wing bow will be blue.

Oh, that's so good to hear, because the one on the left is Sesame! The picture is fuzzier and lighter than the babies really are. The shoulder feathers on both started growing in gold, but now that they're darker further down the shaft, I got skeptical. I also caught both of them facing off with a lavender rooster today, so that's making me doubt as well.

 

[chickee]

I have had pullets do that. Post pictures with a side view so I can see the tails. Shorter, square tails are girls and longer pointed tails are roosters. From your picture I think I see several pullets. It has been especially obvious with the buff x wheatens.

Here is a (poor quality) picture that shows the tails on my buff x wheaten chicks that ended up being 3 pullets and one rooster. Notice how the tail on the chick in the middle (between the black and buff chick) is longer and held down? That is the rooster chick. The black chick also ended up being a rooster.

So do pullets do the cock-fighting thing this young, or is it mostly just roosters?

 

[americanvalkyrie]

Ok, the tails on both of these started growing in square. Now that they're longer, if I flatten the tail out it's kind of a swallow shape, but definitely not pointed on the end.

 

[americanvalkyrie]

Ok, here are some better pictures. Same camera, different light.

Both of them, from the side. One tail is kind of sticking up there in the back



Sesame's tail



the other one's tail



A new one of the other one's back:



Sesame's back:

 

[HighNDryFarm]

I was thinking about all the roo's everyone's getting from their straight runs as well as the excessive roos from pullet bins at the feed stores too. I don't ever recall over the last 30 years, seeing so many roos. Do you think it's because of the popularity of backyard chicken keeping? The hatcheries just can't keep up with the orders so they're less precise when sexing?

 

[chickee]

Missy, maybe these pictures will help

Wheaten rooster chick~ (bottom buff chick is also a rooster)



Pullet chicks~

Ok, here are some better pictures. Same camera, different light.

Both of them, from the side. One tail is kind of sticking up there in the back



Sesame's tail



the other one's tail



A new one of the other one's back:



Sesame's back:

 

[americanvalkyrie]

Missy, maybe these pictures will help

Wheaten rooster chick~ (bottom buff chick is also a rooster)



Pullet chicks~

Ok, I can see it now. Thanks so much! I'm very happy now.

 

[SunnyDawn]

Cool! Yes I still want 5 of the buff x wheaten. She is so pretty and I will enjoy having more like her. Besides I don't like the number 4. lol

Weird. This was in response to Candy's question but for some reason the quote didn't appear!

Pam the only straight runs I know of getting more roos are the polish orders. Aubrey had a terrible time and I got quite a few more roos too in my order from a different company. A lot of other folks are just nervous and judge too early. Normal since those that can't keep them hate to get too attached if they have to get rid of it soon.

 

[chickee]

Sunny, while spending some time with the rooster chicks today, I realized one of the roosters is a dark "blue" wheaten and one a wheaten.