Sexing 9w/o wyandottes and orpingtons

[LoreWalker]

It's that time of year
Anyone willing to help (possibly) sex our wyandotte and orpington chicks? They are 9 weeks old currently. I think we have a lot of roosters, but I am a complete novice at raising chicks. So, fingers crossed for some hens!

Starting off with our buff orpingtons:



And our blue laced (and lone solid black) orpingtons:


And lastly, our silver laced wyandottes:

 

[WonkierZulu]

5 and 6 on the silver laced wyandottes look like boys and number 2 on the buff orpington looks like a boy. Number 3 is questionable on the buff orpington side

 

[LoreWalker]

@WonkierZulu Thanks! Are buff orpingtons harder to sex at all? I suppose for the blue laced ones it might be easier to spot saddle and rooster tail feathers once they come in than for the buffs?

 

[WonkierZulu]

I've only had lavender orpingtons but the cockerels were fairly easy to catch. I have wyandotte they are harder because mine appear just to mature much slower. After about 2-3 months they are obvious.

 

[WonkierZulu]

Also the comb is harder on the wyandotte. So I had 10 lavender wyandotte swore there was 3 rooster out of ten. One I was positive I've been practicing vent sexing. The other two I thought were hens out of 10/9 were females! The more I hatch and handle, and watch it seems to get easier.

 

[K0k0shka]

From the buffs, 2 is definitely male, 3 is questionable but I'm leaning towards male, the rest look like females. The dark ones all look female to me. Can't say about the Wyandottes, as I don't have any experience with their comb type.

 

[SpotTheCat]

buff
1 is a pullet rest look like cockerels
Black
2, 3 and 4 look like pullets to me not 100% sure, I don’t know about 5
Wyandotte
5 and 6 are cockerel not sure on the rest

 

[LoreWalker]

@K0k0shka and @SpotTheCat thanks for your replies!

That's a few more possible pullets than I was expecting at this point. I'll take it, haha
I guess it will still be a waiting game for a bit longer for some of them. I really do hope to end up having at least one (or two!) pullets from each, but it's always a game of chance when hatching eggs.