What gender??

[kurby22]

My 3 favorite silvers this hatch are all tuxes, and by my theory, Angel, Apollo, and Orion are all males , so I’ll see if that turns out to be true haha.

Oh no!! Now I don’t know whether to hope you're right or not love their names regardless! I am a plant ecologist by day, so mine are all going to be named after native plants haha my mom thinks they’re terrible names

 

[kurby22]

1 is a range pattern and not feather sexable, maybe grau fee?

2 And 3 are a wild pattern, it’s too soon to be sure, but they aren’t looking male yet. I can’t tell if they’re falb fee or pharaoh, it doesn’t look like they have much brown.

4 Rosetta, not feather sexable

5 same as 2 and 3, I suspect it’s male, can you get a better front shot of the chest?

6 silver, looks like range pattern, not feather sexable.

tho 1 and 6 are not feather sexable, I suspect they are male. Let me know if I’m way off in a few weeks ok?

Okay I have confirmation...you correctly guessed 1 and 6 as males! Nice job!! I’m super excited that Silvie is a boy Gonna put him in with my blue egg layers when they’re ready! Woohoo The rosetta got out of the pen (daughter didn’t latch the door) and flew into our main yard and the dog got it...so I’ll never know what Rumex was :-( Blah, dogs and quail are not very compatible!!

 

[kurby22]

I couldn’t remember what thread this was in, but it’s such a funny timing coincidence, today I caught Apollo crowing. It’s raining so I couldn’t stand around and observe much, and I was not inclined to climb around much in the mud to catch them and check for foam. I’m glad you updated so I could find the thread. If it’s dry tomorrow I’ll check Angel and Orion for foam.

Would be pretty awesome if you have figured out a way to sex silvers! I would not want to climb around in the yucky mud either! It’s gonna be over 100 here

 

[FloorCandy]

Would be pretty awesome if you have figured out a way to sex silvers! I would not want to climb around in the yucky mud either! It’s gonna be over 100 here

So Apollo and Orion are males, but the jury is still out on Angel.

 

[kurby22]

Yesterday Angel laid a big blue egg. I’m super happy to have been wrong. I’m not convinced the method doesn’t work, perhaps I just need more practice, I got like 6 out of 7 correct. Time will tell.

Yay! You got one hen anyway! Those are pretty good odds for your method! I was really hoping for some blue egg layers, but I am NOT having great luck with them. Out of the 6 I bought as chicks, 2 were eaten by my dog, one stopped thriving after a week, and only 1 is a hen. The hen is being picked on my my falb and grau fee hens and is currently hiding a lot, and the one Celadon male that was getting seriously beat up on is now doing the bullying in the mail jail pen...SIGH. My current batch of blue eggers that I got from Nabiki haven't shown any signs of hatching but I have 3 of her pansy fees that have hatched and I only saw about 3 Celadons that when candled, looked promising. I may just need to settle with normal quail and forget about the blue eggers!