What gender are these? Need to know before caponizing.

[wunderlong88]

I have 8 chicks that hatched 2/19. I got them from my daughter. Her Rooster is a Speckled Sussex. Her hens are Speckled Sussex, Easter Egger, Ancona, Buff Cochin, Buff Orpington, Speckled Sussex and Rhode Island Red. So these 8 are a mix of the SS Rooster and these hens. We don't know which eggs we got except only 1 egg was from the Easter Egger. I would love to know which hen they possibly came from as well as gender. I posted these under my son's account (I'm Kevin's mom) a few weeks ago but now they are older and I need to confirm as best we can the gender as in a few days we are going to caponize the males.

Here is the previous thread about these - https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/what-gender-are-these.1516795/

I am putting what hen I *think* is the mom. Please correct me if I am wrong! (I am staying with the numbering from the previous post just in case someone looks back at those pics)

I would love tips what you see for each of these that indicates the gender. I've been reading and still can't see it. Thank you for helping!

1. Ancona/SS mix -



2. Rhode Island Red?/SS Mix


3. Another Ancona?/SS Mix (This one has a white bar on its wing underneath some of the other feathers.)




4. Buff Cochin




5. & 8. Not sure what the hen is for these/SS Mix? They look alot a like. One is much larger, the other much smaller with white spots on its head.

Larger one -

Smaller one -



6. & 7. Buff Orpington/SS Mix - I can barely tell these apart as one of them as more black speckling on it's back than the other, otherwise look very much the same too my untrained eyes.

 

[BlindLemonChicken]

I think 5&8 are speckled Sussex but I'm out on the rest

 

[BlindLemonChicken]

Haha sorry my reading comprehension is subpar today. Most days...anyway. Can you get a better picture of 5? I think 8 is a pullet but 5 could be a cockerel. Hard to tell from that photo

 

[Hatch me if you can]

I would say you are gonna get some caponizing practice for sure!! #8 may be your only hen, but a better picture could confirm that.

 

[wunderlong88]

Haha sorry my reading comprehension is subpar today. Most days...anyway. Can you get a better picture of 5? I think 8 is a pullet but 5 could be a cockerel. Hard to tell from that photo

Yes, I will take some in the morning. Thx

 

[Kevinsl06]

I don't know if these are any more helpful. I can try again if I need to. This is 5 and 8.

 

[BlindLemonChicken]

Now it looks more like a cockerel to me. Don't chop its head off on my opinion alone though. I am notoriously bad at gender picking

 

[wunderlong88]

Are you saying the one on the left that is larger or the one on the right that kind of has white Speckles on its head and a smaller looks like a Cockerel?

Number one the black and white one I thought might be a female based on my previous thread and the thinner legs and smaller yellowish orange comb. I have no idea what I'm talking about. LOL

And then I thought maybe one of these two that we are discussing, number 5 and 8, might be female. In my earlier thread I was told everything else was a Cockerel but now that they were bigger I was wondering if that was still the verdict. I hate to cut some of them open and find out they are female.

 

[BlindLemonChicken]

The one on the left looks male to me. But like I said-wait for someone else who is more experienced. I had a rooster once that I couldn't figure out why it wasn't laying eggs.

 

[Mamatomany123]

The one circled is a male