sexing tips?

[MakelaNJoe]

Im looking for anyone who can give me a few pointers on how to determine the sex of my crested polish chicks. New at raising chicks and unfortunatly county laws keep me from owing a rooster so its best i find out asap before becoming attached the little girls/guys! Any helps appreciated THANK YOU!

 

[Ol Grey Mare]

Im looking for anyone who can give me a few pointers on how to determine the sex of my crested polish chicks. New at raising chicks and unfortunatly county laws keep me from owing a rooster so its best i find out asap before becoming attached the little girls/guys! Any helps appreciated THANK YOU!

How old are your birds? The characteristics you can look at to start getting an idea of gender vary from week to week of age. One easy way to get genders ID'd is to take photos and post them here in this thread - often those with more experience can see the "tells" more easily than those who are new - so not only will you get feedback on their genders, but people can explain what they see that makes them say pullet or cockerel and you can start to see the characteristics for yourself.

 

[coxrb13]

Try this

 

[emmamary]

I am also somewhat new to chickens, but I believe that with polish the pullets has a bigger crest.

 

[Ol Grey Mare]

Try this

Wing sexing is tied to a sex linked cross similar to the color sex link crosses - it requires a fast feathering male breed over a slow feathering female breed (the resulting chicks will inherit the feathering speed of the opposite sex parent so female chicks feather faster than male and that results in the difference illustrated) and the sexing must be done within the first three days of life -- both must be true in order for the sexing to be accurate. As such, this does not apply to purebred birds such as the OP's Polish even if they are less than three days old. Application of the technique to non-linked chicks is common, but misguided but, like other old wives' tales about sexing chicks, has a 50/50 shot of being right.

 

[BantamLover21]

How old are your birds? The characteristics you can look at to start getting an idea of gender vary from week to week of age. One easy way to get genders ID'd is to take photos and post them here in this thread - often those with more experience can see the "tells" more easily than those who are new - so not only will you get feedback on their genders, but people can explain what they see that makes them say pullet or cockerel and you can start to see the characteristics for yourself.

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[Wyandottes7]

How old are your birds? The characteristics you can look at to start getting an idea of gender vary from week to week of age. One easy way to get genders ID'd is to take photos and post them here in this thread - often those with more experience can see the "tells" more easily than those who are new - so not only will you get feedback on their genders, but people can explain what they see that makes them say pullet or cockerel and you can start to see the characteristics for yourself.

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[Rhodebar Lover]

Polish pulleys crests tend to be neater and round in shape, while the cockerels crests are messier and kind of spread out everywhere. You can also look at their combs, at around 6-8 weeks old the cockerels combs become visible and red while the pullet's combs are non existent or small and yellow, not red or pink.

 

[MakelaNJoe]

I believe my chicks are about 4 weeks unfortunatly my 2 polish chicks are more skittish its much harder to take a good picture! My black polish seems to have a much larger comb then my grey/lavender polish.

 

[coxrb13]

He might be a cock then. You will know for sure if he starts to crone.