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Ladyquitachicks said:
Hello everyone! My name is Quita and I’ve recently decided to start raising chickens. Currently I have 4. I’ve had them for about a month. They’re around 12-13 weeks old and I haven’t figured out the sex nor breeds so any help and/or tips would be appreciated!
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Hiii and welcome here : ) I heard you want to know their gender and I thought that I could help,to me Peppa and luci look like roosters judging by the fact that they have a really red and bright comb especialy peppa
you can identify roosters by the way their tail feathers look too!
I will show you and example look 11A13AD3-4A0A-4D7E-9848-407CC4339DCF.jpeg
this is a rooster tail FB273AAE-46E4-45C3-926C-63E2A8906529.jpeg
And a chicken tail
you can wait for those two to crow too
if You are planing on getting new chicks I can give you some tips on that too
 
Ladyquitachicks said:
Hello everyone! My name is Quita and I’ve recently decided to start raising chickens. Currently I have 4. I’ve had them for about a month. They’re around 12-13 weeks old and I haven’t figured out the sex nor breeds so any help and/or tips would be appreciated!
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Can you also send pictures of their full body I think that will be more helpful😄
 
Yanisay said:
Hiii and welcome here : ) I heard you want to know their gender and I thought that I could help,to me Peppa and luci look like roosters judging by the fact that they have a really red and bright comb especialy peppa
you can identify roosters by the way their tail feathers look too!
I will show you and example look View attachment 3124208
this is a rooster tailView attachment 3124209
And a chicken tail
you can wait for those two to crow too
if You are planing on getting new chicks I can give you some tips on that too
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At 12-13 week, a cockerels tail feathers won't be in.
At that age, the males will have much larger and redder combs and wattles than the pullets and may have started to grow in their long pointed saddle feathers which are the gender specific feathering. Pullets and hens will have rounded saddle feathers.
 
DobieLover said:
At 12-13 week, a cockerels tail feathers won't be in.
At that age, the males will have much larger and redder combs and wattles than the pullets and may have started to grow in their long pointed saddle feathers which are the gender specific feathering. Pullets and hens will have rounded saddle feathers.
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Well my roosters started to grow tail feather at 13-14 weeks old,maybe it was too early but still I always succeed at identifying their genders just with that method
 
DobieLover said:
At 12-13 week, a cockerels tail feathers won't be in.
At that age, the males will have much larger and redder combs and wattles than the pullets and may have started to grow in their long pointed saddle feathers which are the gender specific feathering. Pullets and hens will have rounded saddle feathers.
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and by the way can behavior help identify genders in chickens,because roosters are always noisier and run around but Chickens are calm and don’t move around much,would that be helpfu?
 
Yanisay said:
and by the way can behavior help identify genders in chickens,because roosters are always noisier and run around but Chickens are calm and don’t move around much,would that be helpfu?
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I've not found this to be the case.
I've actually found that my roosters tend to be more stationary as they stand still on the lookout for potential threats to their flock while the hens and pullets mull around foraging or are dust or sun bathing.
Gender can be determined with about 95% accuracy at about 6 weeks for most experienced keepers.
 
Yanisay said:
Hiii and welcome here : ) I heard you want to know their gender and I thought that I could help,to me Peppa and luci look like roosters judging by the fact that they have a really red and bright comb especialy peppa
you can identify roosters by the way their tail feathers look too!
I will show you and example look View attachment 3124208
this is a rooster tailView attachment 3124209
And a chicken tail
you can wait for those two to crow too
if You are planing on getting new chicks I can give you some tips on that too
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I figured one was a rooster. I’ve been watching and looking for those saddle feathers to appear. Nothing yet
 
Ladyquitachicks said:
I figured one was a rooster. I’ve been watching and looking for those saddle feathers to appear. Nothing yet
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You won't see gender specific feathering until around 15 weeks. You can post individual free standing pictures of your birds and we can let you know our opinions on gender.
 

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