Polish- boys or girls

[Easter_pink_silkies]

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aww thanks, shes my boy's's fight referee (spelling?) its so funny shell jump right into the midst, and flog the instagator, she even roosts with my silkies on the ground, shes such a charecter!

 

[MissPrissy]

Girl, boy, Girl.

 

[verthandi]

Seminolewind, I have been trying something on day olds, if you think of it next time you hatch polish and would like to try it I would love your help. They say you can wing tip sex them at hatch, I have had mixed results. One time even wing tips was male, the second time they were female. But it would be interesting to see if we could work out a pattern for sure.

I wanted to do week by week photos of this years hatches and follow them, but the darn things all sold at a couple of days old and I don't expect the new owners will keep track.

 

[seminolewind]

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MissP, I'm hoping one of your guesses is wrong, LOL I hate rehoming them after I'm attached. Good thing the last 3 cockerels I rehomed were absolutely bonkers, I would look at them and they would try to crawl up the walls. It was easy to rehome them.

 

[seminolewind]

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aww thanks, shes my boy's's fight referee (spelling?) its so funny shell jump right into the midst, and flog the instagator, she even roosts with my silkies on the ground, shes such a charecter!

Easter, those 3 Polish were hatched and raised by my little (bantum?) silkie hen. She went stubbornly broody.
The poofy butt you see in that pic is one of the roos. He got nasty and went thru behavior modification, and is now a nice roo. He even got friendly with my 6 year old granddaughter.
I have a hen and 2 silkie roos together, and they all get along. Thank God, I love them all.

 

[seminolewind]

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Okay, this might help. First off, with this 3 Polish, I took the roundest eggs, like 3 out of 6, and hatched them. Then I did the day old wing thing, and they all passed for female. It will be interesting to find out how well that worked.
On my 2 - 8 week olds, I did the same thing, one is a Polish/Polish cross and one is a Polish/Jersey Giant cross, and I took the roundest eggs, and they passed the day old feather test for female, and what do you know- both female, one is that pic of Frenchfry.
So I think I'll keep a record of it, and maybe do that with others I will sell, and that may increase our results. Oh, what fun!!!

 

[verthandi]

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ooohhh, never considered the egg shape. When you say roundest, are you talking the ones that are hard to tell top from bottom, or the ones that are more normal egg shaped like from other chickens?

Were the wing tips even or staggered on your females?

 

[seminolewind]

The rounder eggs, well, they were from the same hen, and the pointy end of the egg was either more pointy or more rounded. I don't think it would work comparing eggs from different breed hens.
With the feather tips, there were the longer tips, then within the longer tips were shorter tips. So there were 2 different lengths mixed together. But I'm not sure if you can sex birds that are not bred to wing sex.
I'll try anything at this point as I hate rehoming roos.

 

[seminolewind]

I took a real long look at the questionable 3 above, and at 7 weeks old, there's not a speck of pink or red on their nose or cheeks. None. I guess that's a good thing.

 

[verthandi]

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I actually think you are onto something there. Before 24 hours old there are diffinetely two types of wing tips. My last hatch had half that were staggered tips and half with even tips. It will be interesting to explore that idea.

And I agree with you on the egg shape. It's just that my WCB lay a torpedo shaped egg (almost hard to tell top from bottom) and my Blue's lay a more standard shaped chicken egg, I was just trying to get an idea of the roundness that you were talking about.