sexing bantams

[leighhancock]

I think they just don't want to do it! Its easier and more cost affective for hatcheries to sell straight run. I have only been raising chickens for a couple of seasons and I am about %80 at sexing them by their pelvis. (I am still learning!!) So I KNOW the experts can do it!

 

[Rin]

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Not to mention it /is/ doable as MPC offers it. I just wish I knew about the wing feather thing before everyones wing feathers grew in. :'( Based on personalities though there's at least one of my D'uccles I think is a roo based on the fact everyone seems to run behind him. He is very unfazed by things, even had a stare down with my cat and won. The D'uccles only recently turned two weeks and this one is very set on roosting high above everyone else. Theres a pair I'm very certain are pullets. They stay quiet and huddled in the general roosting area and when I feed them they stay back waiting with my 3week old sexed pullet EErs to see what the other three D'uccle chicks are doing. All three I think /might/ be roos but I'm so sure of one of them I marked his foot to see if I'm right later.

 

[jeslewmazer]

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Pretty much. To me the males have a lighter head with a silvery look and the lighter head strip. So yes.

 

[J3172]

can you tell what mine are by looking at my photos.

 

[Boggy Bottom Bantams]

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Pretty much. To me the males have a lighter head with a silvery look and the lighter head strip. So yes.

10-4 I had always wondered about that.
As for the comb sexing, I am noticing that to be true on my d'anvers as well, havent really put much effort into check it but looks that way
Aubrey

 

[J3172]

okay can you tell me if they are boys or girls.

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[jeslewmazer]

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I found your thread. Ideal has such a huge selection and most you can only tell what they are after they feather out fully. But if #1 are the same I would say 1 stag and 1 pullet, and if #2 are the same 2 stags, Maybe I ordered mine by specific so I knew exactly what they were. A lot of chicks look a lot like that young. It makes it hard to tell.

 

[jeslewmazer]

Just got a pleasant surprise today. I have One boy and One girl.
They are Silver Duckwing Old English and the original came from Ideal.

 

[jeslewmazer]

The light one is a boy and the dark one is a girl. They have a slightly different look to them in person. I think it has something to do with the flash.

 

[J3172]

oh I see it now, yea I think I have a hen chick, in my batch plus I already have a 2 year old silver ducking, they are one of my favorite OEGB colors