Pullet or Roo?

[Chicken poppy]

Faverolle is a handsome roo in the making. Leghorn is pullet.

 

[Painted Calls]

Both chicks look like mixes to me.

Agreed

 

[Rosanna9246]

Agreed

Faverolle is a cream legbar/Faverolle mix. Got the CLB colors and the Faverolle feet. Not sure what the white one is mixed with but the breeder says mom is a leghorn.

 

[NatJ]

Hmm, I was thinking the opposite. When I wing checked them at 1,2,3 days both had the double layer feathering. But my eyes aren’t so good and I’m new at chickens.

The problem is not with your eyes. The problem is with whoever posts wrong information on the internet for new chicken keepers to find.

Feather sexing does not work on most chickens.

There is a gene that controls how quickly a chicken grows feathers. That gene is on the chicken Z sex chromosome. If someone crosses a fast-feathering rooster with a slow-feathering hen, they get feather sexable chicks (fast daughters, slow sons). Any other arrangement of parents gives chicks that cannot be sexed by their feathering.

 

[NatJ]

Not sure what the white one is mixed with but the breeder says mom is a leghorn.

If the chick has a muff & beard on the face, and the mother is a Leghorn, then the father must have a muff & beard like the chick does. Depending on what kinds of roosters the breeder has, that may be enough to rule out some of them.

Edit to add: the father probably does not have feathered feet, either.

 

[Rosanna9246]

The problem is not with your eyes. The problem is with whoever posts wrong information on the internet for new chicken keepers to find.

Feather sexing does not work on most chickens.

There is a gene that controls how quickly a chicken grows feathers. That gene is on the chicken Z sex chromosome. If someone crosses a fast-feathering rooster with a slow-feathering hen, they get feather sexable chicks (fast daughters, slow sons). Any other arrangement of parents gives chicks that cannot be sexed by their feathering.

Good to know. I’m always learning new things.

 

[Rosanna9246]

So remember theses two? They are 7 weeks. This morning I heard what could only be described as a chicken being choked. Lol. I think someone was trying to crow. Is 7 weeks a bit young?

 

[NatJ]

I think someone was trying to crow. Is 7 weeks a bit young?

That sounds to me like a fairly normal age to start.

Cockerels can start crowing at very different ages. I've read of chicks who started crowing as early as age 3 days (quite rare), and others who waited more than 6 months.

 

[Chicken poppy]

That sounds to me like a fairly normal age to start.

Cockerels can start crowing at very different ages. I've read of chicks who started crowing as early as age 3 days (quite rare), and others who waited more than 6 months.

Wowza. That would be my luck! They would start crowing inside the egg, to!

 

[Folly's place]

My youngest crower was 28 days of age!