Question- When do spurs come in?

[rebecca10782]

When do spurs usually start to show? And how can you tell there sex by there tail feathers?

 

[Jennyhaschicks]

I was wondering about the spurs as well.

 

[Oblio13]

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Their, there, they're.

Their tail feathers, there on the tail, they're longer on roosters.

Spurs will be just little nubs at six months and maybe an inch at a year old.

 

[gritsar]

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I didn't judge my roos simply by their tail feathers. That was just like a piece of the puzzle, if you know what I mean. The combs were darker, they had wattle development, the roos were slower to feather, esp. on their wing bows, and the tail feathers came to a definite point. All of that added up to roos. I was able to correctly identify my roos using that method @ 5 weeks old and promptly found homes for the extra roos.

 

[littlelemon]

You know, my rooster doesn't have spurs, and he is a year old! He is a White Rock, and here is a pic-just nubs where the spurs should be: