What Breed? Possible gender? :)

[GAChickenMomma]

Hello!

edit to add photo of chick:

I recently have gotten four chicks from our local TCS, and while two of them I bought as pullets (golden laced wyandotte), two I bought as straight runs. I’ve tried researching for hours but I can’t seem to get a type of chicken these beautiful babies are. They were both yellow when I got them, and the started growing these colored feathers.

And I was hoping maybe you can tell the gender of them as well?

Thank you so much!

 

[EmmaRainboe]

Thats not always true it works on my silkies.

“The trait is sex linked and works only if the chick’s father is of a breed that grows feathers rapidly and its mother is of a breed that grows feathers slowly.”(Damerow, 2017)

One of many sources.
https://www.cacklehatchery.com/what-is-feather-sexing-separating-fact-from-myth/

 

[EmmaRainboe]

Are they Bantam or large fowl? Can we get a picture of the whole chick? Wing sexing only works on specific crosses.

 

[TheAlrightyGina]

Its always best to do it 1-5 days after hatching. If you do it after that then their bigger feathers will come in and it won't work.

I'm getting 25 Silkies in a couple of weeks. PM me your method, I'd love to try it out. I've been working on figuring out an earlier and more reliable way of sexing Silkies than the standard way of staring at them intently until they're nine weeks old and sorta guessing based on certain physical characteristics.

 

[Chickensandhorsesforlife]

maybe salmon favorolles, or a mix of salmon favorolles? look female..... I do not really find the wings accurate. my hens wings looked like that

 

[THEChIcKeNwhisperer354]

By the wings they look female but, Im not sure if the wing trick works on that breed.

 

[THEChIcKeNwhisperer354]

Are they Bantam or large fowl? Can we get a picture of the whole chick? Wing sexing only works on specific crosses.

Thats not always true it works on my silkies.

 

[Gallinarium]

Are they Bantam or large fowl? Can we get a picture of the whole chick? Wing sexing only works on specific crosses.

x2

 

[THEChIcKeNwhisperer354]

“The trait is sex linked and works only if the chick’s father is of a breed that grows feathers rapidly and its mother is of a breed that grows feathers slowly.”(Damerow, 2017)

One of many sources.
https://www.cacklehatchery.com/what-is-feather-sexing-separating-fact-from-myth.

It has always worked on my silkies. Im not saying that it works on all silkies my Greasy hen might have a few tricks up her wing.

 

[THEChIcKeNwhisperer354]

How many have you sexed that way? There’s always a 50% chance of getting it right.

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