The combs are changing....guess again?? Pic Heavy

[Gindee77]

You have beautiful chickens...but I have no idea about their sex.

I just wanted to comment on the banding of legs. We put zip ties on a few of our chicks to mark the ones we thought were males...make sure you leave plenty of room for them to grow and be sure to take them off before you run out of space. The ties may still fit okay on the chickens but make sure you can still get a wire cutter in to cut them off when you want them off. All that being said, of course mine were much smaller when we put the zips on them. And they grew really fast. We took the ties off today and I was so scared that we were going to hurt one of them before we got them off. Luckily we managed to get them off without any injuries or harm done.

 

[Badhbh]

Don't feel bad- I have 3 buffs, and only one i'm sure is a girl. The other two are very androgynous

 

[Katy]

I still vote for them being roos. I've got some about the same age and the pullets have basically no pink in their combs or wattles.

 

[skeeter]

id say all roosters

 

[silkiechicken]

Just 9 weeks... I say they are all roos.

 

[hinkjc]

At 9 weeks, it gets kind of tough on these guys. The fast maturing hens catch up with the slow maturing boys. I will give you some tips that may help, especially on buff. The boys get deep gold in their maturity feathers. Girls tend to stay more consistent in their plumage color and their feathers are rounder.

For example, pic 8 has the brighter gold in the wing bars already. Pic 10 I can see the deeper gold in the saddle (very likely those are pointy too..but tough to say by the pic). Pic 12 (the one on the left) has it in the saddle too.

Look them over well, especially in the saddle area. The boys should be showing pointy darker gold feathers at this age or will be soon.

Jody

 

[ella]

I'll add the word glossy to that. The boys feathers are glossy and shiny in among the normal feathers. Females are all matte and dull.

Orps can be hard because the boys seem to mature slower than the girls so they can look alike.

Um I think I just restated what Jody said.

 

[ctcasper]

Okay, so where is the sadde, kinda at the base of the neck???? I will look for those feathers......a farmer came over and picked out three he thought were hens...because of thier comb and wattle size and because of their tail feathers.......does that make sense or is that a bad way to tell?

 

[hinkjc]

The saddle is right where the back connects to the tail.

Good point on the "glossy" note. They are more glossy than hen feathers too.

Jody

 

[tiffanyh]

I think you have some hens there....my orps have large combs when they get to laying age.