Sexing Peachicks - India Blues

[frenchblackcopper]

It's been raining here all day which gave me a great excuse to build on the palace,,these 3 pics looks to be all males,,rain again tomorrow but possibly Sunday it's going to shine here so I can get pics of the pair I have

 

[zazouse]

They all look like males in the last photos to me also but you have to give them a month, it is different when seeing them in person verse a photo, it is like you know things to look for that a camera does not pick up, i learned to tell mine apart ast a younger age but i have had two batches to learn from them.

 

[AugeredIn]

Yeah it is still a tough call. I would have expected girls to continue losing barring.

 

[Little Roughian]

To me in person... One seems to not have as much barring as the other two. But none seem to be getting more defined barring. Size wise one is much larger, and now Leonard is the same size as the other. I guess at this point start placing bets!

 

[frenchblackcopper]

Sun is shing here today,and I will get a few pics of my young pair for you.It's easiest to tell (for me anyway and with my 2 chicks) by looking across both of their backs.The 1 I'm sure is going to be a hen is a litttttle bit darker and if you look real close her barring is disappearing in a side by side comparison.I took 8 IB peachicks to the swap meet last weekend and sold all but these two.

 

[frenchblackcopper]

Okay the sun is out and brite and I got pics.I don't know how these will show up here so I will upload them medium sized so they can be clicked on and enlarged.Granted just glancing at both chicks they look pretty much the same,,color wise,but when you start looking for diffrences between them closely that's where sex can be determined. this first picture is of both of them,the hen is on the right.

 

[frenchblackcopper]

Here is another pic of both of them side by side.The hen is on the right again,,her wing is over the back of the males,and his wing is outstretched to the far left side of the picture.Notice barring is still easy to see on the male(left) while on the hens inside wing feathers next to her tail the barring is almost gone now.There is quite a contrast between both birds looked at with outstretched wings.Look hard at the hen right behind her neck area on her back,,she also is darker than the male.It's not the best pic for this sort of observation but none the less she is a shade or two darker.

 

[frenchblackcopper]

Here is the hen upclose

 

[frenchblackcopper]

And here is the male upclose

This one is taken up at the shoulder of the male

 

[frenchblackcopper]

Little Roughian,Open their wings and pay close attention to the barring on the feathers.Pay no attention to the flight feathers,only the coverts-shoulder feathers. Look at post#48 and then at the top pic in post #49. Notice in pic #48 the long feather in the middle has now lost all barring on the top half of the feather and the bottom half (left of the cuticle-midrib) does not have the distinct barring anymore and is changing too.The top half of this feather is now changing to very dark brown while the bottom half is slowing changing to the same color.You can see the pigment blocks on the lower half of her wing feather that are gaining size and are the exact same color as the upper half already is. There was a long,,long discussion about feathers not changing color earlier here,and this is yet another fine example proving my point,that feathers DO NOT COME in all one color,but slowly change color overtime.,That wing feather clearly again shows color progression and at present is 2-3 diffrent colors-shades of brown. Top pic in Post #49 still shows a barring pattern thru each feather almost appearing as a continous line from feather to feather.I hope this helps,,and as I mentioned before in other posts some people do not have numerous same color-patterns of chicks that hatches together to notice these subtle changes.I look at pigment at the root of the cuticle feathers now more on some colors to gain an early sex id,,make notes,then keep track.I hope these pics helps.These chicks hatched in mid July,,so close to 7 weeks old now and I could tell a diffrence over a week ago between them.I don't really pay too much attention to IB chicks,,4 of my colors are B/S and they are the tougest to sex because they are all born yellow so thats where I have been concentrating early sexing skills-notes-techniques the most this year.