My little three week old mix, the only one to hatch (Gold Comet x Brown Leghorn Rooster) is growing fast! I'm looking at the comb though and wondering if that one little chick who made it out of the whole batch is a cockerel. I suspect the other four from my most recent batch are also all boys.
Here is the Comet cross: (Three weeks old now, nearly four)
And here is the Black sex link I made by Cuckoo Marans x BL Roo
a head spot would be an indicator of a boy, I believe.
And here is the white leghorn x Brown Leghorn, who I am not sure about yet, but the wing feathers on the three remaining birds (including this one) all resemble the black sex link boy's wing feathers. The other two are EE x BL
I noticed someone mentioned yesterday that they also seemed to be hatching all boys. Maybe my temps are too high? This batch, I had one hatch late and die, and two more never hatched.
Hmmmm. I need to keep checking my temperatures.
Just to give you a bit of hope on those EE crosses - In my experience you CANNOT tell on EE's by wing feather sexing! Last year we tried that with some EE's since it seemed to work so well with BO's, but I had one chick I was SURE was a boy end up being a pullet, and another I thought was a pullet, became a handsome little roo! So don't give up til they start crowing! LOL!
