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Livestock => Poultry & Waterfowl => Topic started by: skippy on September 27, 2013, 06:24:12 pm

Title: 11 week old hens ? or cocks?
Post by: skippy on September 27, 2013, 06:24:12 pm
hi all.
any clues too my chicks we hatched there 11 weeks old trying too work out sexes .
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Post by: skippy on September 27, 2013, 06:27:03 pm
another shot
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Post by: darkbrowneggs on September 27, 2013, 06:56:57 pm
Look like girls to me  :fc:
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Post by: AndynJ on September 27, 2013, 08:19:21 pm
I definitely think girlies  :excited: nice colouring
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Post by: roddycm on September 27, 2013, 08:51:34 pm
My vote is for girls too!
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Post by: in the hills on September 27, 2013, 09:12:23 pm
Girls  ;D
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Post by: Victorian Farmer on September 27, 2013, 10:16:24 pm
Girls
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Post by: skippy on September 27, 2013, 11:10:17 pm
cheers everyone.i thought so too but always nice to hear others opinion. :)
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Post by: AndynJ on September 28, 2013, 01:29:44 pm
can't you stick your fingers in yet they seem big enough.  :farmer: poultry it's a passion
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Post by: Marches Farmer on September 30, 2013, 10:43:03 am
Boys will generally have bigger comb and wattles turning red before the girls' do.  If you look about two thirds of the way down their back, above where the sickle feathers emerge on a mature cockerel, the feathers will have pointed ends.  On girls these have rounded ends.  They'll also have longer primary feathers on their wings, again emerging before the girls' do.
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Post by: Clansman on September 30, 2013, 12:04:57 pm
Are they leghorns?
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Post by: shygirl on September 30, 2013, 12:10:51 pm
the legs are a good clue - cockeral chicks usually have big gangly legs.