Welsummers gender ?

chick one - cockrel
chick two - cockrel
chick three - pullet, but the breast feathers are looking rooish, they usually are darker, turning to blach on rooseters
chick four - pullett

On welsummer chick sexing, when they first hatch out and for about the first 2 weeks of their lives the pullets have defined v shape on their head, their eyes look like the have eyeline. Cockrels have a smudged v shape on their head and no eye liner. The cockrels began to get their combs pretty early, the cockrels develope black breast feathers, the pullets have salom colered feathers on their breast area.
 
chick one - cockrel
chick two - cockrel
chick three - pullet, but the breast feathers are looking rooish, they usually are darker, turning to blach on rooseters
chick four - pullett

On welsummer chick sexing, when they first hatch out and for about the first 2 weeks of their lives the pullets have defined v shape on their head, their eyes look like the have eyeline. Cockrels have a smudged v shape on their head and no eye liner. The cockrels began to get their combs pretty early, the cockrels develope black breast feathers, the pullets have salom colered feathers on their breast area.

And the cockerels tend to feather in slower. #'s 1 & 2 are definitely cockerels.

Do you have pics of the top of their heads from when they were about 1 week? Then maybe we could help you with #'s 3 & 4
 

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