SLW Gender

[HappyClucker7]

I think it's a cockerel.

 

[The Happster]

I'm going to tentatively vote pullet and say, come back and update.
Here is a pic of my boy for comparison.
He is 6 weeks roughly. Not far off your birds age. Same breed.

 

[FrauFrost]

Funny enough, my boy has coccidia too.
The meds I ordered haven't cured it. I'm trying a second week, and if that doesn't work I don't know what else to do.
It's not serious in the sense that he is acting normal.
It is serious in the fact that if this week doesn't cure him, I can't do anything more for him. I'll get a photo of my boy.

No way!! Poor guy! Hope he feels better. Mine is doing well. The breeder had them
On stacked brooder cages and medicated food but it killed all of them. They can’t seem to make a connection between the coccidia and the stomach rupture but my
Vet thinks that’s what it is. I treated them with corid too. No luck. What are you using? Corid worked on this guy .... his poops are great now. Lol I’m glad you’re guy is acting normal. Yes, I’d love to see a
Pic!!! I don’t know what I’ll do with another roo lol my Reggie is protective as it is!!!

 

[The Happster]

Yeah. His sibling has it too.
She's a Buff orp.
They are both pets and I'm completely in love with them.
I'm using Coxoid. Where I live I have limited options. Coxoid was there, Corid wasn't. I wish I could have got Corid.
I have two mature roosters, and two male chicks. The other male is being raised by my hen.
I'm really hoping the two chicks with Coccidiosis pull through and are cured.

Glad yours is doing well now. It's a horrible thing.

 

[Susan Alice]

I'm new to the forum and new to SLW's. We have these two SLW chicks and it would be lovely if someone would weigh in with gender speculation. We live in the mountains and could keep a cockerel I suppose, but I think the neighbors are close enough to mind, plus we're not interested in breeding. I know a local lady who would butcher one for us and that might go well if she hasn't gotten too far into the sauce that morning. Otherwise, I'd have to re-home him/them (and who the heck would want them?) or start a new chapter in self-sufficiency. Getting up the gumption to shoot destructive ground squirrels is one thing, butchering a chicken I raised from a fluffy bundle quite another. Anyhoo, I digress.

 

[HappyClucker7]

I'm new to the forum and new to SLW's. We have these two SLW chicks and it would be lovely if someone would weigh in with gender speculation. We live in the mountains and could keep a cockerel I suppose, but I think the neighbors are close enough to mind, plus we're not interested in breeding. I know a local lady who would butcher one for us and that might go well if she hasn't gotten too far into the sauce that morning. Otherwise, I'd have to re-home him/them (and who the heck would want them?) or start a new chapter in self-sufficiency. Getting up the gumption to shoot destructive ground squirrels is one thing, butchering a chicken I raised from a fluffy bundle quite another. Anyhoo, I digress.View attachment 2340427View attachment 2340431View attachment 2340432

It would be best to start your own thread about this.
5 weeks is too early to tell anything for sure. You should repost when they are 8-12 weeks old. For now, I will tentatively say that Elizabeth is a cockerel and Moonie is a pullet.

 

[Susan Alice]

It would be best to start your own thread about this.
5 weeks is too early to tell anything for sure. You should repost when they are 8-12 weeks old. For now, I will tentatively say that Elizabeth is a cockerel and Moonie is a pullet.

Thank you. I did post the question in an appropriate thread today.