Polish Chickens

[poniesforever]

One more question I forgot to add to my last post. I also have 5 golden laced polish chicks. They are 4 weeks old, well, a couple days will be 5 weeks old. I got straight run when I ordered them, since I couldn't get just pullets in this breed. At what age will I be able to tell which are roosters, and which are hens? Maybe I just have to wait until they start crowing...? I also got some salmon faverolles, that were straight run, and I can clearly tell which is the rooster with that breed already. They are the same age as the polish. Just wondering if the polish roos have any distinct features I can watch for??

 

[sourland]

Pullets generally have a more rounded head covering/crest; whereas, cockerels generally tend to be more spikey/rock star crested. Other than that the appearance of crowing/ saddle and hackle feathers are defining traits for cockerels.

 

[poniesforever]

Okay, showing my complete lack of knowledge about chickens... what are hackle feathers, and where would they show up? Right now all 5 of them have some spikey looking hair-dos going on. However, 2 and possibley 3 of them, are very shaggy looking spikes, kind of flopping every which way. While at least 2 are looking spiked, but more uniformed, and not hanging all about their head. So maybe I have at least two hens. I really wanted just pullets, but ordering just pullets in this breed wasn't an option. Thanks so much for your help!!

 

[Grey's]

Don't quote me on this but I have 5 polish chicks and found out one is a roo, he tries to cock a doodle doo, so funny but also he has like two little horns starting on his head which I think is indicitive of a polish rooster.??