Not Sure If You've Got A Pullet Or Cockerel? Click Here! Thread 2

[jennyf]

Are you sure you ordered those from Cackle? Your chicks are Easter Eggers, and Cackle does not mislabel their Easter Eggers as Ameraucana. And they only vent sex their Black Ameraucana. Their Blue and Lavenders are not sexed. And none of your chicks are Lavender. 

Cackle has Black, Blue, and Lavender Ameraucanas all available as sexed for 2017. Ask me how I know this... Not that I've been obsessively looking at their availability list on a daily basis or anything, ha!

https://www.cacklehatchery.com/pdf/AvailabilitySpreadsheet.pdf

 

[henny1129]

Thanks Janie Hall, they are characters!
Thank you for your input hennie1129, I'm brand new to chickens so this is my first rodeo. I'm almost 100% sure top left is a boy, "he" runs the show! Bottom left was looking ambiguous until last week when "his" comb seemed to sprout overnight and turn reddish. I'm gonna hold on to hope that one or both on the right side may be pullets! I'll update with pictures in a couple of weeks.

Yeah, he looked like he had some comb development. Sounds good!

It's got to be glare. It's too early to be 100% but I think female.

X2.

 

[henny1129]

Are you sure you ordered those from Cackle? Your chicks are Easter Eggers, and Cackle does not mislabel their Easter Eggers as Ameraucana. And they only vent sex their Black Ameraucana. Their Blue and Lavenders are not sexed. And none of your chicks are Lavender. 

I think you meant to quote @Nyla. I agree though, those are Easter Eggers, not Ameraucanas.

 

[chameleon]

I got some Potchefstroom Koekoek chicks yesterday. They are about two weeks old, and I thought it was too early to sex them. I noticed some of them weren't barred as clearly as others, so I did some research and I found out that barred rocks can be sexed earlier. Wikipedia says that Koekoeks can be sexed at hatch, but doesn't specify how. As they are very similar to barred rocks I'm guessing they can be sexed in the same way. So now I'm curious and want to ask all you sexing experts what you think. Here goes:

Chick 1


Chick 2


Chick 3


Chick 4


Chick 5


Chick 6


Sorry for the blurs, they were behaving like popcorn this morning

 

[debid]

I got some Potchefstroom Koekoek chicks yesterday. They are about two weeks old, and I thought it was too early to sex them. I noticed some of them weren't barred as clearly as others, so I did some research and I found out that barred rocks can be sexed earlier. Wikipedia says that Koekoeks can be sexed at hatch, but doesn't specify how. As they are very similar to barred rocks I'm guessing they can be sexed in the same way. So now I'm curious and want to ask all you sexing experts what you think. Here goes:


Sorry for the blurs, they were behaving like popcorn this morning  

Look for threads about sexing by headspot and down color of barred rocks since those are quite common in the US. There are some really good ones on BYC. It's easier, IMHO, to wait three weeks and see who is obviously lighter/darker but there are some folks who can do it at hatch reliably.

 

[chameleon]

Look for threads about sexing by headspot and down color of barred rocks since those are quite common in the US. There are some really good ones on BYC. It's easier, IMHO, to wait three weeks and see who is obviously lighter/darker but there are some folks who can do it at hatch reliably.

Thanks. I did that but it was just confusing me Apparently the head spots blur after a few days so that method is more reliable in the first couple of days after hatch. And the barring on the feathers is supposed to be more prominent on the male chicks, but all the signs seem to mixed on my chicks so I thought I'd get an expert opinion. I guess I'll just have to wait another couple of weeks

 

[Eps32]

Interesting...the lamp is raised way up should I turn it off?

Also give them all the chick starter they can eat I fill mine constantly

 

[Nymeria10]

Am I the only one who looks at the pics of the bird discussed above(2!d phot specifically) and thinks that it looks so much like a velociraptor or some other dinosaur it's scary? Lol I think it's half Dino half chicken lol. Very cool looking bird. Possibly a game bird mix? Also looks a little like a production red.
With a crane? Lol she's very tall and elegant. For Halloween this year you need to make her a velociraptor costume lol
Thank you for mentioning that as I couldn't decide if they were in the setting or rising sun or not. They are very beautiful and true Isabel birds are stunning in my opinion. If they're just for pets and you don't plan to sell their chicks then go for it breed them and post what you get. I'd be interested to see it myself.

They look especially like velociraptors when they walk or run, I thought I was the only one that thought this. Nobody else can see it.
She has always been much much bigger than the other chicks, even when she was small. That's why I call her Brienne of Tarth

She's the yellow one in the back.

 

[Susanhen]

Do these look like roo saddle feathers coming in or am I paranoid? The EE'pullet' is about 13 weeks old. No crowing. I've posted her before but want to keep updating her growth to ease my mind.

 

[junebuggena]

Do these look like roo saddle feathers coming in or am I paranoid? The EE'pullet' is about 13 weeks old. No crowing. I've posted her before but want to keep updating her growth to ease my mind.

Full body shot please. Can't see the saddle feathers in that shot due to the wing feathers being in the way.