RIR Gender ?

MMH27

In the Brooder
Apr 2, 2020
10
6
13
North Carolina
I recently took in some RIR chickens and was curious if anyone knew how to tell the gender in them ! Any information helps ! Thank you !
 

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Still to young to tell. Did you buy them as straight run or sexed pullets? Usually you can start to see evidence of cockerels by 5-6 weeks, so I would post more photos then. Some people look at the tail development and feathering speed (if it feathers slower or the tail is much smaller than the others, it may be a cockerel). I don't know how reliable this is, but so far it has been the case with my cockerels. These guys still just have nubs, no tail feathers to speak of, so I would just wait.
 
Still to young to tell. Did you buy them as straight run or sexed pullets? Usually you can start to see evidence of cockerels by 5-6 weeks, so I would post more photos then. Some people look at the tail development and feathering speed (if it feathers slower or the tail is much smaller than the others, it may be a cockerel). I don't know how reliable this is, but so far it has been the case with my cockerels. These guys still just have nubs, no tail feathers to speak of, so I would just wait.
Thank you ! Not really sure we got them from a farm well a friend had actually got them from a farm for us so we didn’t even pick them out ! And just said they didn’t know any gender and we just knew we wanted 6 and was hoping to get some hens 😬 thank you !
 

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