Think 247T34 is a roo but not sure

[Yard Farmer]

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Pullet.

Thank you .. what about Mr noisyView attachment 3999552View attachment 3999554
They would not sit still for a picture
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Cockerel.

Ok thank you .. one more what about this one? His name is Azon and he is 5 weeksView attachment 3999566View attachment 3999567View attachment 3999565
I'm thinking he looks like hen patterned to me. He is getting in reder pincelled feathering on his wings close to the primaries.

Not super sure - I'd say pullet so far.

On this one, I'd say you have to wait for male, or female specif feathering.
Or comb growth...

 

[Yard Farmer]

Feather sexing isn't reliable - Different breeds feather out differently then others. Faster or slower, Bigger or smaller, and colors.

 

[2 chiks n a roo]

Feather sexing isn't reliable - Different breeds feather out differently then others. Faster or slower, Bigger or smaller, and colors.

True, but the shape of feathers is generally different, plus the girls have shorter softer saddle feathers where the boys are longer pointier.
It is easier to sex them by their wings under 1wk old, but still can be done. Going by the combs is less accurate because some girls combs go red, an develop whattles early. Mine are developing by 7 weeks. Most of my pics are on my old ph, but mine are also hybrids, and only 4 have been the same, rest threw to the underlying breeds of the Hy-line. Their wings still showed the same rows of feathers, an my friend's chicks were 6 1/2 wks when we sexed them. She had 2 barred rock, 2 Wyandot, 2 Orpingtons. She got 2 boys total

 

[Yard Farmer]

True, but the shape of feathers is generally different, plus the girls have shorter softer saddle feathers where the boys are longer pointier.
It is easier to sex them by their wings under 1wk old, but still can be done. Going by the combs is less accurate because some girls combs go red, an develop whattles early. Mine are developing by 7 weeks. Most of my pics are on my old ph, but mine are also hybrids, and only 4 have been the same, rest threw to the underlying breeds of the Hy-line. Their wings still showed the same rows of feathers, an my friend's chicks were 6 1/2 wks when we sexed them. She had 2 barred rock, 2 Wyandot, 2 Orpingtons. She got 2 boys total

Interesting. I wonder if it was the HY-LINE gene making your birds sex-able by their wings.

I've raised birds for going on 9 years now, and I've never had a successful feather sexing round.

 

[2 chiks n a roo]

Interesting. I wonder if it was the HY-LINE gene making your birds sex-able by their wings.

I've raised birds for going on 9 years now, and I've never had a successful feather sexing round.

9yrs.. I have a Long time to catch up lol I got chickens July 2023, and was forced to learn extremely fast cos one of the girls sounded like it had a flat battery up it's butt, then started growing.. Big..
Then one of the hens got sick, hence my super fast studying everything I could cram in about chickens. She got better and was well for almost 6 months. But my carer although she tries, had no clue about chickens in the heat, so one died after I got home from a market.
So when Rhodey got old enough to mate, he chose one as His girl... She, who has been ill since May and not currently laying or running with him, is the tiny Hy-line mumma if all my chicks.

She's thrown leghorns, pure black chicks, the very first surviving chick which when hatched I did a fast study on how to sex them, was a boy. His comb made it easy to tell.
Try this:
On day of hatch, (most) girls have very little or no comb showing but look like they're frowning, plus they waddle more rounded. When you spread their tiny wings there is generally long/short feathers. If they're just fluffy with no formation, it's a boy. Check the forehead as well, if no comb has formed, there will be a longer line in the brow.
By 1-2 wks old, the girls tails are usually already started, or beginning to spike. Their bodies feel rounder and they waddle in a squatting posture whereas the boys stretch more an have no tail feathers

 

[Yard Farmer]

9yrs.. I have a Long time to catch up lol I got chickens July 2023, and was forced to learn extremely fast cos one of the girls sounded like it had a flat battery up it's butt, then started growing.. Big..
Then one of the hens got sick, hence my super fast studying everything I could cram in about chickens. She got better and was well for almost 6 months. But my carer although she tries, had no clue about chickens in the heat, so one died after I got home from a market.
So when Rhodey got old enough to mate, he chose one as His girl... She, who has been ill since May and not currently laying or running with him, is the tiny Hy-line mumma if all my chicks.

She's thrown leghorns, pure black chicks, the very first surviving chick which when hatched I did a fast study on how to sex them, was a boy. His comb made it easy to tell.
Try this:
On day of hatch, (most) girls have very little or no comb showing but look like they're frowning, plus they waddle more rounded. When you spread their tiny wings there is generally long/short feathers. If they're just fluffy with no formation, it's a boy. Check the forehead as well, if no comb has formed, there will be a longer line in the brow.
By 1-2 wks old, the girls tails are usually already started, or beginning to spike. Their bodies feel rounder and they waddle in a squatting posture whereas the boys stretch more an have no tail feathers

Good to know, thank you for the tips. I will certainly try it.
If it works for me, it will be a huge game changer as I breed expensive show birds to sell.

I will say, sounds like you're off to a pretty good start with your flock!

 

[2 chiks n a roo]

Good to know, thank you for the tips. I will certainly try it.
If it works for me, it will be a huge game changer as I breed expensive show birds to sell.

I will say, sounds like you're off to a pretty good start with your flock!

I just grabbed one of the original video links I found last year for you and anyone else.
Thanks, it wasn't planned... mine jumped into the production line within 3 months of having them, what was meant to be 3 Hy-line pullets at POL turned out to be 1 13 month & 1 5 yo hy-lines and 1 2 month old roo. So buying my first incubator was a must lol
I've got 1 mumma, 1 dad.. and out if 60 eggs, 24 lived (Hy-line are really hard to hatch successfully) the chicks are huge, and grow bigger than mumma, my 21 wk old has surpassed her already. I've got 8 of her girls now. And about to incubate some from my neighbours ex last 8 1/2 yo surviving hen, who is now laying after 2 years of no eggs.. she's now laying daily, sometimes weak shells, but mostly good dark smooth shells. Today's was a bit grainy, but it's fertile, so I'm putting 6 in.
I love chickens, that includes roasted, and their eggs.. but they're So much more than just pop an gobblers, they know they're loved.
I'm looking at buying champion stock eggs, there's a guy that wins championships with his leghorns an I want some

 

[NatJ]

...when Rhodey got old enough to mate, he chose one as His girl... She...is the tiny Hy-line mumma if all my chicks.

So all of your chicks came from one original pair? That pair might have the right genes to produce feather-sexable chicks (looks like it in the video) but most chickens do not. So what you have learned can be correct for the chickens you have, but it is not correct for all other chickens.

She's thrown leghorns, pure black chicks...

Leghorn is a breed. The only way to get Leghorns is to breed a Leghorn hen to a Leghorn rooster.

Either all the chicks are Leghorns (two Leghorn parents) or no chicks are Leghorns (any other set of parents).

White chicks can be White Leghorns, or White Rocks, or White Orpingtons, or many other breeds. Or white chicks can be what yours are, mixes that do not belong to any specific breed.

 

[2 chiks n a roo]

So all of your chicks came from one original pair? That pair might have the right genes to produce feather-sexable chicks (looks like it in the video) but most chickens do not. So what you have learned can be correct for the chickens you have, but it is not correct for all other chickens.


Leghorn is a breed. The only way to get Leghorns is to breed a Leghorn hen to a Leghorn rooster.

Either all the chicks are Leghorns (two Leghorn parents) or no chicks are Leghorns (any other set of parents).

White chicks can be White Leghorns, or White Rocks, or White Orpingtons, or many other breeds. Or white chicks can be what yours are, mixes that do not belong to any specific breed.

That's not my video, it was the one I found when I hatched my first ones, I'll add a pic of 5 of mine, they are 100% full sisters
The 'leghorn' is what everyone says she is.
It's not just my chicks that I've wing sexed, a friend 6 chicks too, 3 dif breeds. We got it right.

Hy-Lines as you know are a mix of various breeds, many include leghorns, id really like to study chicken genetics, would be really interesting.
I'll add a couple of pics of my one below.
I understand what you are saying about the leghorns, I questioned it multiple times, the first to ever say it was on here in BYC, I said no she's a mix. But then a few others who didn't know her, came to pick up week old chicks and commented that she was a beautiful leghorn...
But because there's no way to do DNA testing accurately, we'll never know for sure.
I have heard other people mention ending up with a leghorn, but never believed it until Teenie was hatched.. she's literally the only one that looks like a leghorn, no other does, even out of the chicks I sold. I tried google lens an it bought up leghorns.
What ya think?

Teenie is the white, the other 4 are sisters same age. The gold/white and brown are 2 wks older.. all from one mum, one dad

 

[Gumby the gelding]

I don't have a name for him/her yet.
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What breed?