Sexing 5 week old mutt chicks

[RoosRock]

Hey everyone,

Question regarding my 5 week old chicks… more to come…. what gender are they???



I think this is a pullet… (mom is an easter egger and dad is an olive egger)




I think this is a cockerel…. (mom is an isbar and dad is an olive egger)




This one i'm not sure about…. (mom is a polish and dad is an olive egger)

Smaller photos are at 3 weeks… here are some more that will be 5 weeks soon their pics coming soon!

standard orpington x easter egger

easter egger x olive egger
isbar x olive egger

cream crested legbar x olive egger
polish x olive egger

Thanks

 

[GitaBooks]

This is just guessing, since they are too young to be sure, but here goes.

The comb looks pretty wide for a hen so I'm going to say rooster.



This appears to be a rooster just because the comb looks to be brightening. A hen's comb generally won't do so until she is at least 12 weeks of age.



I can't be sure of this one, but it could possibly be a rooster.



Pullet


Not sure


Pullet


Pullet?


Rooster


Again, these are just guesses, but I hope they help some.

 

[RoosRock]

The olive egger rooster has strong silkie genes, that could be where the wide comb is from...
Thanks so much GitaBooks, my guesses where different, it's so much fun to try figure these things out before hand "are you a boy or a girl?" Like they're going to tell us! LOL

 

[GitaBooks]

The olive egger rooster has strong silkie genes, that could be where the wide comb is from...
Thanks so much GitaBooks, my guesses where different, it's so much fun to try figure these things out before hand "are you a boy or a girl?" Like they're going to tell us! LOL

I thought I would know when I ordered specific genders from the hatchery. Turned out, most of them were wrong anyways. Sedgewick my rooster is a hen and my pullets Vanda, Delaware, and Shirley became Vick, Dexter and Sher Khan.

 

[Birdrain92]

Hey everyone,

Question regarding my 5 week old chicks… more to come…. what gender are they???



I think this is a pullet… (mom is an easter egger and dad is an olive egger)




I think this is a cockerel…. (mom is an isbar and dad is an olive egger)




This one i'm not sure about…. (mom is a polish and dad is an olive egger)

Smaller photos are at 3 weeks… here are some more that will be 5 weeks soon their pics coming soon!

standard orpington x easter egger

easter egger x olive egger
isbar x olive egger

cream crested legbar x olive egger
polish x olive egger

Thanks

Can you get pictures show the wings spread out? At this age trying to sex them based off of the comb is difficult. Some look as if they may have get a rose or pea comb. Here are some pictures to show what I kind of need the photo to look like.

 

[RoosRock]

 

[RoosRock]

Here are the rest of them face and wing shots….















this one is not quite 5 weeks yet, will be in 3 days!

 

[Birdrain92]

Pullet

Pullet

The secondary feathers need to spread out a bit. I'm guessing pullet as well but I would like you to pull the wing out a little bit further try and get a better idea.

Here are the rest of them face and wing shots….
Pullet





Pullet

Cockerel




Cockerel

this one is not quite 5 weeks yet, will be in 3 days!
I see some secondary feathers crossing over toward the primaries making this a little more difficult. I kind of want to say cockerel just because the secondary feathers go the far towards the primaries.

I made marks in red for my opinion.

 

[Birdrain92]

Just so you can try to show you what I'm looking at.
Here's a cockerel. Secondary feathers spread out, go right to the axial and then primary feathers.

Pullet.Secondaries remain bunched together a small gap between the secondary feathers and the axial and primary feathers.

 

[RoosRock]

Thanks Birdrain92, here's the 2 that weren't very good...


This one i think is a boy, based on his colouring, i think he's a black duckwing, he has a white head spot….
let me know what you think