Author Topic: 11 week old hens ? or cocks? (Read 2985 times)

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 .

skippy · « **Reply #1 on:** September 27, 2013, 06:27:03 pm »

another shot

darkbrowneggs · « **Reply #2 on:** September 27, 2013, 06:56:57 pm »

Look like girls to me

AndynJ · « **Reply #3 on:** September 27, 2013, 08:19:21 pm »

I definitely think girlies

nice colouring

roddycm · « **Reply #4 on:** September 27, 2013, 08:51:34 pm »

My vote is for girls too!

in the hills · « **Reply #5 on:** September 27, 2013, 09:12:23 pm »

Girls

Victorian Farmer · « **Reply #6 on:** September 27, 2013, 10:16:24 pm »

Girls

skippy · « **Reply #7 on:** September 27, 2013, 11:10:17 pm »

cheers everyone.i thought so too but always nice to hear others opinion.

AndynJ · « **Reply #8 on:** September 28, 2013, 01:29:44 pm »

can't you stick your fingers in yet they seem big enough.

poultry it's a passion

Marches Farmer · « **Reply #9 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.