sexing barnvelder chick?

[crazycluck86]

He/she was only 3 days old here but does anyone have any ideas? Or should I get a better pic?

 

[Jotaylor]

You have to look at the wing. I have tried to tell what they are but have yet to be proven as my hens aren't laying age yet. Here is what I have gone by
http://animalsciences.missouri.edu/reprod/ReproTech/Feathersex/sld006.htm

 

[crazycluck86]

Thats useful thank you. If I go by that information I think we have a pullet, but I read somewhere that cockerels have a grey chest and pullets have a beige/cream chest....'she' is grey. She is the first barnvelder I have ever had so its all new to me ha!

 

[Jotaylor]

I'm glad that was useful, I think our new baby is a pullet too. What breed is Mom in the picture? I have a hen that looks just like her only smaller. I think she lays small white eggs. She's rather skidish, as I can never catch her. My daughter can tho. LOL

 

[crazycluck86]

Lol! Yes my 3 year old daughter is good at catching them, although she does struggle with the larger breeds! That's Dottie, shes a large dark brahma. The other two stripey babies are dark brahmas too and the little yellow chick is a salmon faverolle. Shes a great mom and so tame and loving, but at the botyom of the pecking order :-(

 

[Jotaylor]

She is much bigger than ours but looks just like her! Good to know what breed she is! Do you think she is the same breed? Her name is nutmeg.

 

[crazycluck86]

Ahh shes beautiful, yes she looks like a bantam brahma! Lovely birds but always broody lol!!
I have a cockerel too who is bigger than my daughter but it won't let me post a pic!