SEXING PHOENIX LONG TAIL

[nchls school]

Cockerel???

Below-Phoenix pullet of same age for comparison.

 

[Squishychicken]

first pic is defiantly male: i see male specific coloring

 

[nchls school]

Thank you all. It is great news that it's a cockerel. If he wasn't I'd have four pullets with no roo.

 

[JedJackson]

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The bird is two and a half months old with a pale comb developing and some wattle development. Cockerel or pullet???? The larger comb but being pale in color makes me wonder.

It's a cockerel. However, leg color and feather pattern/colors are not right for any Phoenix variety I know of.

 

[mgbantams]

Uh, really? All recognized Phoenix varieties have legs that bluish gray color. Do you know the golden variety? Btw, this cockerel looks exactly how a golden Phoenix should at this age.
@JedJackson

 

[The Moonshiner]

It's a cockerel. However, leg color and feather pattern/colors are not right for any Phoenix variety I know of.

I agree

Uh, really? All recognized Phoenix varieties have legs that bluish gray color. Do you know the golden variety? Btw, this cockerel looks exactly how a golden Phoenix should at this age.
@JedJackson

Leg color should be a lot darker.
It looks closer to a silver or silver/gold then a golden. Actually doesn't look golden at all to me.
I'm betting its got some other breed in there somewhere.
That white on the chest is a dead give away it isn't duckwing.
OP, Yes it is a cockerel.

 

[mgbantams]

I agree

Leg color should be a lot darker.
It looks closer to a silver or silver/gold then a golden. Actually doesn't look golden at all to me.
I'm betting its got some other breed in there somewhere.
That white on the chest is a dead give away it isn't duckwing.
OP, Yes it is a cockerel.

Ya, I get what your saying about the white spot, that's not supposed to be there. I didn't notice that before. I still think everything else about it looks like it's a golden Phoenix, or part golden Phoenix.

 

[nchls school]

i am new to phoenix and have little knowledge of the breed. My wife bought the eggs off ebay as a gift to me. There's every possibility that they are not what they were advertised to be. Crossbreeds is quite likely.

 

[JedJackson]

Uh, really? All recognized Phoenix varieties have legs that bluish gray color. Do you know the golden variety? Btw, this cockerel looks exactly how a golden Phoenix should at this age.
@JedJackson

I raised Golden Phoenix many years ago and that is not what they should look like as juveniles, color-wise. For a number of reasons. And that is okay. He could just be a mix of different colors and still have the long, flowing sickle and saddle feathers. But it's something to be aware of if this cockerel is intended for breeding purposes.

 

[nchls school]

The hatching eggs my wife bought were supposed to be a mix variety of long-tailed varieties. Of the 15 eggs, I now have four half grown birds. Two are white and the other two are shown in the pictures of previous posts. One of the white pullets does not have a single comb, but rather what looks like will be a rose comb/flat comb. I wish I had a better memory or had written it down. I think most,or all, the eggs were marked as "phoenix'.