What gender

[Star and eclipsa]

I have an eight week old chicken and i really need to know the gender.

 

[Star and eclipsa]

You cant see it in the picture, but its starting to get kind of pink on the base of the comb.

 

[azygous]

At eight weeks, the comb would be bright red if it was a cockerel.

The progression of pigment for cockerels is yellow at three or four weeks, yellow orange around five weeks, and getting red-orange by six weeks. By eight weeks, it's bright red, so you probably have a pullet.

We could see a better picture if you re-post and select "full-size all images". Then we can zoom in.

 

[Star and eclipsa]

At eight weeks, the comb would be bright red if it was a cockerel.

The progression of pigment for cockerels is yellow at three or four weeks, yellow orange around five weeks, and getting red-orange by six weeks. By eight weeks, it's bright red, so you probably have a pullet.

We could see a better picture if you re-post and select "full-size all images". Then we can zoom in.

Just click on the picture and spread two of your fingers out to zoom in

 

[Star and eclipsa]

At eight weeks, the comb would be bright red if it was a cockerel.

The progression of pigment for cockerels is yellow at three or four weeks, yellow orange around five weeks, and getting red-orange by six weeks. By eight weeks, it's bright red, so you probably have a pullet.

We could see a better picture if you re-post and select "full-size all images". Then we can zoom in.

My other chicken is a white polish cockerel, so when they are older maybe i can breed them and get little baby chickens

 

[azygous]

Some of us don't have touch screens.

 

[Star and eclipsa]

Some of us don't have touch screens.

I dont know how to change the picture

 

[keesmom]

Production red pullet.

Yes she could be bred to your Polish cockerel. Production Reds aren't known for their broodiness though. Unless you have an incubator you aren't likely to have chicks. That's not a bad thing though.

You would like to have more chicks to care for, a sentiment just about everyone here understands. You even try to pay for feed for your current birds yourself (nice job!).

BUT. You are not allowed cockerels/roosters where you are. If you hatch eggs you have a 50/50 chance of having more males, in addition to the one you already have. Unless you have a plan for the extra chicks, especially the male chicks, you shouldn't hatch any.

 

[Crazy for Chickens!]

That's a pullet.

 

[Star and eclipsa]

Production red pullet.

Yes she could be bred to your Polish cockerel. Production Reds aren't known for their broodiness though. Unless you have an incubator you aren't likely to have chicks. That's not a bad thing though.

You would like to have more chicks to care for, a sentiment just about everyone here understands. You even try to pay for feed for your current birds yourself (nice job!).

BUT. You are not allowed cockerels/roosters where you are. If you hatch eggs you have a 50/50 chance of having more males, in addition to the one you already have. Unless you have a plan for the extra chicks, especially the male chicks, you shouldn't hatch any.

If the chicks i hatch are female im keeping and if they are male im giving them to a person that my mom knows who works at fedex (she has a large property and my mom said that she is looking for a cheap rooster)