It's everyone's favourite game - pullet or cockerel?!

Anyone want to play? 3.5 week old chicks.

1 - Silver sussex #1


2 - Coronation sussex #1


3 - BLRW #1


4 - Coronation sussex #2 (much smaller than #1)


5 - Silver sussex #2


6 - Olive Egger


7 - BLRW #2


8 - BLRW #3


9 - BLRW #4 - way less red than the other three

This will be no help.

I can never guess a birds sex until it is much older than 3.5 weeks. It takes longer for my eye to detect the difference in feathering.

Keep in mind that I raise mutts. Sexing your birds gets a little easier if you are very familiar with the characteristics of your breed as adults.

One thing I have found that is a pretty good indicator of sex, at least with my mutts, is the size of the leg bone. Comb size can be deceiving. But it has been my experience that roosters always have bigger bone to their leg. In some instances, markedly heavier bone. Even if they all hatch looking the same, within a month little roosters have bigger leg bones, and hens have slightly shorter more delicate legs.

Of course, this can be tricky too. A chunky hen can have legs as big as a light boned rooster. This is made worse in my case since I have so many mixed up genetics in my flock. But if you have ALL RIRs, for example, you know they should be pretty uniform, therefore larger leg bone is most likely an indicator of a rooster.

I rely on bone size more than comb development. BUt to truly tell you have to wait a lot longer, at least I do.

To me they all look delicious. I think I have 1 pullet and 5 roo's out of my bunch. Le Sigh. I was hoping for more pullets but delicious roosters are delicious.

I am impatient. lol

Both of my Silver Sussex seem HUGE compared to the others, with big chunk legs. One is very bold and chases my hand around when I'm doing anything in their brooder. The other one runs away with the rest of the chicks. But maybe it's just the breed? They're just huge?

The Olive Egger, too, seems big, with big legs. I only managed to hatch one of those successfully, so I was really hoping it would be a pullet!

Rooster
Pullet
Hermaphrodite
Metrosexual
try sexual
dunno
dunno
dunno
tasty

I hope this helps:D 

bckev wrote:Rooster
Pullet
Hermaphrodite
Metrosexual
try sexual
dunno
dunno
dunno
tasty

I hope this helps:D 

Best. Answers. Ever.

authenticfarm wrote:

bckev wrote:Rooster
Pullet
Hermaphrodite
Metrosexual
try sexual
dunno
dunno
dunno
tasty

I hope this helps:D 

Best. Answers. Ever.

Indeed!  

I was going to play, but how can anyone compete with those answers! lol