What is This Chick? Confusing Me! 7 Week old Del *UPDATED PICS PAGE 3

[PepsNick]

This Delaware chick is five weeks old. I am planning on selling it this weekend so need to know gender. I was thinking pullet, but look at it now...


Thanks.

 

[PepsNick]

Sorry, I don't mean to bump, but I really need to know so I can contact some people and set up my auction...

 

[boykin2010]

I am not an expert on sexing so i could be wrong. It looks to me as if it is a pullet. It is still a little early to tell i think. Some of the feathers makes me think boy but then the comb and everything else makes me think boy.

 

[Country Heart]

For my Delawares it was especially difficult to tell - I was never quite sure until they actually started laying eggs. Turned out they both were girls - but developed very differently and at very different rates.

 

[PepsNick]

Thanks.

Any others want to pitch in?

 

[turtlebird]

the pictures aren't very clear, but I would guess roo. The hackle feathers in the first photo are very pointy looking. Legs look thicker also.

 

[chickened]

I have several at that age it is most likely a rooster, any barring in the tail or faint barring? Look like rooster legs.

 

[speckledhen]

Both sexes with these Delawares have thick legs. I'm not so sure of the sex of that one, Nick. Why are you in a hurry to sell it? Be better to wait a bit and not make the mistake of selling a pullet. Tasha, who is ten weeks old, has humongous legs and there is no question she's a she. If I was forced to call it now, however, I'd lean toward a late blooming cockerel, but then again, they've fooled me before.

Your pictures are really not clear enough to make a judgement call, way too grainy.

 

[speckledhen]

Here are some pics of your chicks half sister, Tasha.

@ 4 Weeks:

A bit later:

Then @ 9 Weeks:

 

[PepsNick]

I want to sell it soon because I want brooder space, and am one that likes to have everything sorted asap. We just want to et settles with these, I guess, plus we are leaving town for a while next week.


Thank you for the pictures!