Sexing 8 week old bantams???

[amcockers]

 

[howfunkyisurchicken]

Are these Cochins? Both the whites look like boys, the black frizzle is questionable too. The rest look like pullets to me...

 

[leadwolf1]

3 and 5 are the only ones that scream roo but 6 looks a little suspicious with that red coloring....

 

[amcockers]

they were all supposed to be Frizzles. The red ones' feathers are nothing like the white and black one. All are bantams.

 

[leadwolf1]

Frizzles don't breed true so you can get frizzled and non frizzled, frizzle chicks It is my understanding that the frizzled ones can pass on the gene but the non-frizzled ones cannot.

 

[hdowden]

you cant breed frizzle to frizzle either. you breed frizzle to a smooth frizzle to get proper feathering which in turn will give you frizzled and none frizzled offspring

the 2 whites are cockerels the rest look like pullets

 

[leadwolf1]

you cant breed frizzle to frizzle either. you breed frizzle to a smooth frizzle to get proper feathering which in turn will give you frizzled and none frizzled offspring

the 2 whites are cockerels the rest look like pullets

Thanks, I forgot to mention that part...correct me if I'm wrong but you can get proper feathering by breeding any smooth bird to a frizzle not just a smooth frizzle back to a frizzle. I have two gorgeous frizzle X d'uccle mixes

 

[BlueCamas]

3 and 5 are the only cockerels.

 

[hdowden]

Thanks, I forgot to mention that part...correct me if I'm wrong but you can get proper feathering by breeding any smooth bird to a frizzle not just a smooth frizzle back to a frizzle. I have two gorgeous frizzle X d'uccle mixes

i think, if i remember right, that both parents have to have a copy of the frizzling gene as i think its a recessive trait

 

[leadwolf1]

I don't believe so...otherwise, how would you get frizzled polish, frizzled NNs, etc? You should only breed frizzle to smooth. Otherwise, you end up with a frazzle Not a nice looking bird! I have a white d'uccle that crossed with a red frizzle roo...I have two frizzled pullets just now at POL...

here they both are at 1 week old...




and saran a couple weeks later...