Wing sexing with americauna chicks

[Painted Calls]

Your answer is no.

I answered that in my previous post.

 

[TheOddOneOut]

I’m not sure why @Speckledsussex2022 is getting so bent out of shape about people trying to helpfully correct their misinformation, but I’ll say this: Those are very likely EEs, and you can’t wing sex them.

 

[pipdzipdnreadytogo]

None of those chicks are Ameraucana's.
Am's have chipmunk stripes.

Only one standardized variety of true Ameraucana that I'm aware of is chipmunk striped as a chick, the Silver variety, and it's one of the less common varieties. I would actually hazard to guess that most true Ameraucanas are not chipmunk striped as chicks.





To the OP, as others have said, neither can accurately be wing sexed. Wing sexing is actually caused by a sexlinked dominant gene. In order for the chicks to be sexable, the parents must have been selected for the appropriate genes to pass on to their chicks. It can coincidentally seem like it works in small batches of chicks, which is why it continues to be a popular myth for chick sexing, but over many batches or in greater numbers you'll find that it is not accurate overall unless you are selecting your breeders for wing sexing in their offspring.

The gene that allows for wing sexing causes slowed feathering, meaning the chicks that inherit the gene feather in slower than those who do not inherit it. In other words, no, you cannot tell sex by who has tail feathers already, either. All you can say with confidence is that those with early tail feathers have genes for fast feathering and the ones without tail feathers have a gene for slow feathering.

There really is no way to sex chicks early on beyond breeding for sexlinked traits, which obviously cannot be done for already hatched chicks. Even vent sexing is highly inaccurate to the untrained eye, and not even 100% accurate to the trained eye! You will just have to be patient and wait at least 6 weeks to get an idea of how many males and how many females you have. Good luck! From what I saw of the pictures before they were removed, you've hatched some really cute bearded babies!