Sexing my bantam chicks (5 weeks old)

[Capricoco]

I got chicks from a local feed store, they were straight run bantams and they are now old enough to start sexing them, so I’ve labeled suspected breeds/colors and colored in the top right corner of each with suspected gender(pink for girls, blue for boys)

 

[Painted Calls]

Typically 5 weeks is fine for single combed bantams.

 

[Capricoco]

i think frizzles are cockerels mottled OEGB and porcelain d, uccle are cockerels and the last two OEGBs are pullets

After looking at a bunch of threads on 6 week old frizzle Cochins, they look more like pullets rather than cockerels.

 

[Capricoco]

That d'Uccle is looking like a cockerel. Can you get pics in better lighting?

Tomorrow I can.

 

[nuthatched]

5 weeks in a little too early, I don't see obvious cockerels at this point

 

[nuthatched]

Oh- I was told that 5 weeks isn’t too early. Someone else told me that the ‘pointier’ combs were pullets and the ‘globy’ combs are cockerels.

It's about the earliest unless you can tell if you have a very developed cockerel, which you don't. Waiting a few more weeks will weed out the late bloomers. The comb thing is a old wives tale.
I agree, (for now) you have pullets.

 

[Capricoco]

It's about the earliest unless you can tell if you have a very developed cockerel, which you don't. Waiting a few more weeks will weed out the late bloomers. The comb thing is a old wives tale.
I agree, (for now) you have pullets.

I have some chicks that are two weeks younger and a couple of their combs are about twice as red as these so that might be an accurate guess.

 

[Painted Calls]

That d'Uccle is looking like a cockerel. Can you get pics in better lighting?

 

[Capricoco]

First two are cockerels? Rest look like pullets.

Are you sure? The d’uccle really looks like a cockerel too. As for the frizzles, I think it’s kind of up in the air. They’re either slow cockerels, or fast pullets.of All the posts I’ve looked at of 6 week old Cochin bantams, they’re kind of in between.

 

[Painted Calls]

Your cochins are pullets.