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

[A_Ciarametaro]

9 week old light brahma

 

[Thekillertrout]

9 week old light brahmaView attachment 2184232View attachment 2184233

I’m no expert but I know that is a cool bird! Also I believe the sickle feathers In the tail are a cockerel trait but don’t take my word for it.

 

[kathrync]

These chicks are between 7-8 weeks of age, and they are supposed to be female. I bought them from a small, local hatchery and found out that they have some bad reviews about the accuracy of their chick sexing. Now I'm worried I may have a bunch of roosters! There are a variety of breeds, so I don't know how they should compare.

Copper Maran:

Olive-Egger:

Rhode Island Red:

Silver Laced Wyandotte:

Blue-laced Wyandotte:

Ameracauna:

Same silver-laced Wyandotte:

 

[Crazy Pet Lady]

We're two weeks in with these babies! Dark Brahmas and a Barred Plymouth Rock ordered as pullets from a hatchery in Ohio. *Dottie almost didn't make it. She/he pulled through though! She/he is MUCH smaller than the others of the same age. Any ideas at such a young age on these?

 

[TheMother]

Please help me out with these three 5 week olds. The lighter brown one and yellow one are harassing/pecking/ pulling tails on my other chicks so badly I'm just about done with them. My guess is lighter brown one is a Roo and the other two are Pullets.
Any guesses?? Thank you

 

[NTroyer]

These chicks are about 11 weeks old. I'm thinking the last two pictures might be a rooster? His comb is a little bit darker than the other SLW (unless he is something else) The Brahmas of the same age seen to be much more easy to tell what we have.

 

[Wishing4Wings]

9-10 week Lavender Orpington
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9-10 week Starlight Green Egger
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I also think both are pullets... smallish pale combs.

 

[Wishing4Wings]

Hello. I hope someone can help on gender with this one?
31 days old and caught on camera when just getting sleepy! Been much slower developing than its hatch mate.

Thanks

What is it? Silkie cross? with a pea comb?
Too early, but not obviously male at this point.

 

[Wishing4Wings]

Both Dark Brahma, bought from the farm store on May 09. Indistinguishable as chicks, I was convinced both were SHE, but their coloration is now so divergent from one another (as well as the distinctiveness of the penciling) that my inexperience is showing, and I'm beginning to second/third/fourth guess myself. All the pictures I find of cockerels online (older birds, obviously) tell me there will be no question later, the boys are so distinct, but that doesn't help in the here and now. I have four birds largely matching the coloration of the first (albeit *slightly* darker and more distinct) on the left, and the one much darker bird pictured at right.

Thanks in advance!


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I don't know much about this breed either, but from pictures, seems like there is a lot of variation, unless you go to a breeder. Brahmas are supposed to have a pea comb. Hard to tell what the darker bird has in the pic.
The males will develop solid white wing patches fairly early... might show by 6-7 weeks or so depending on how fast these mature.

 

[Wishing4Wings]

This is Smoosh, she/he is a cross between a Barred Holland roo and a Silver Laced Wyandotte hen. She/he is right at 9 weeks old. I had a little boy from the same hatch that developed much faster and was easily determined to be a boy but unfortunately his life was cut short by the neighbors dog. This one has had me stumped for a number of weeks.View attachment 2184124View attachment 2184125

Don't know how lacing and barring interact, so hard to go by coloring. My overall impression is a pullet. I would expect a 9 week male to have larger wattles, and the comb looks very flat... a better pic of that might help.
Smoosh is very cute.