Welsummer Chicks, How do you tell Hens from Roosters?

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does a rooster always have to crow?
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My bet would be girls based on my 3 (especially the bottom one with the well-defined eye penciling), but hopefully someone who has raised more can weigh in.
 
If you read the whole thread, markings at hatch are not reliable.

When they have the first set of feathers, it's usually obvious. The females will have a soft and even palate with brown back and pinkish chest. Males will show overall splotchiness and varying amounts of black on the chest with it turning all black as they mature.
 
lauralou said:
I can never tell for certain until they start getting chest feathers. I have a batch that are about 3 weeks old and starting to show their sex clearly. I can still see the markings on the head, and one that is definitely a girl has head markings that scream "Boy!".

What a pleasant surprise!
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sorry to necromance a decomposing thread but this was the answer I was looking for...

I hatched 7 Wellies and 5 are looking to be roos. Every post I look through were about visually sexed welsummer pullets turning out to be roo, and not the other way around.

So I was wondering whether it was worth holding on to them in hopes that one will be a pullet or whether it would be a lost cause. Your comment from 12 years ago has given me a glimmer of hope!
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