Sexing 4 week old

[Orps]

Please help me sex chicks. I'm horrible at it. They are 4 weeks old.

This is what I think. Let me know if you think I got this right. The blue in the corner is a boy. The 2 brown ones beside him are girls. The 1 brown at the bottom left is a boy. The black on the far right is a boy and the other black is a girl. What do you think? Did I get it right?


Girl?

Girl

Boy in front, Girl in back

Chick in the front is a boy?

Blue Boy, Brown Girl

Girl

 

[GitaBooks]

Looks like you got it right!

I'm not the best either, but I would say those are safe guesses. You'll have to wait and see a few more weeks before it will be obvious.
They are all very beautiful. I love the mottled hens.

 

[BantamFan4Life]

Could you get individual pictures? It would be easier to tell, but they look a little young, so might want to wait a few weeks at least.

 

[Orps]

 

[GitaBooks]

Oh wow! They are so gorgeous!! Where'd you get them?

 

[Orps]

Oh wow! They are so gorgeous!! Where'd you get them?

They are nothing special. Just a hobby project birds that a friend is doing. A mix between black and buff orpingtons. Returning most of them back in a couple of days so I'm trying to sex them because I'm keeping some and I'm not allowed roos where I live.

 

[chiques chicks]

I'm just interested in the coloring, very similar to a hobby project I'm working on. I started with a lemon cuckoo and BBS orps.

 

[Orps]

I'm just interested in the coloring, very similar to a hobby project I'm working on. I started with a lemon cuckoo and BBS orps.

I get the incomplete dominance the color resulting in the black and gold batches. If the solid blue and solid black turn out to be roo, I can understand the gene being masked. But I'm sure there is a solid black one is going to be a pullet. Not sure how that came about because pullets carries only 1 set of genes. It's all very fascinating.

 

[chiques chicks]

I get the incomplete dominance the color resulting in the black and gold batches.  If the solid blue and solid black turn out to be roo, I can understand the gene being masked.  But I'm sure there is a solid black one is going to be a pullet.  Not sure how that  came about because pullets carries only 1 set of genes.  It's all very fascinating.

Honestly, I'm rather lost on genetics. Currently hatching the third generation. In my case, there is the added barring gene. I get the gold and black, black and blue, blue and yellow, some mostly yellow, a few mostly black.

I was intending to work towards a reproducible black and gold, I like they are somewhat camouflage to predators.

I have also thrown albinos, probably linked to the barring gene in my rooster, i know he is the carrier, but that is on another thread. Side project is reproducing them. They are still young.