sexing

Hello 🤗 Hope all are well on here! I am a proud new owner of some baby peas! I have been decorating all the info I can learn on them such as housing, feed, veterinary care, etc. I am so glad there is such a wealth of info on here because other than some small articles on zoo websites and...

Hi, I’m hoping someone can help me figure this out!! I’m looking to adopt another hen from my local shelter. This bird was listed as a hen on the website and they said was returned to the shelter for being a rooster with no other explanation. I went to go take a look at her/him and still can’t...

Goodmorning all! I found a place that had 2 day old bantam chicks that I had been looking for. Theyre ADORABLE 🥰 to say the least. I got them yesterday so today they would be 3 days old. I was curious to see if anyone was good with feather sexing. If I was reading the articles and the diagrams...

Straight run (I believe that's the right term) from a local whose flock consisted of ameraucanas, brown leghorn, and road island reds, along with a few other breeds. -- Pay no mind to the silkie mom who has done a great job raising them. Although one does have feathered legs like a silkie...

Two photos of each. I won’t be upset if one is a boy, but I would like to know. Thank you!

New to turkeys. Someone gave me 4 Royal Palm turkeys - said they are 4 mo old (one died 2days after I got them). It’s standard for me to quarantine any new animal away from the rest of my farm when they are new. I was told there are 2 hens and 2 toms but I have no clue how to identify who is...

Still hasn’t crowed and can’t tell if it’s a roo or hen. Thank you

Has anyone ever been convinced their chicks were Cockerals/Rooster only to be surprised with a Pullet/Hen instead? If so, what were your experiences? Was it the early development of Comb/Wattles, behavior, feathering/patterns, or even the crowing? I want to hear about your sneaky tomboy hens! :D

Hi, looking for some advice please - do you think my Pekin Bantam 5 1/2 week old chick is a cockerel or pullet? Pics attached. All 4 of the chicks I have seem to be pullets but this one is confusing me. Thank you

Hello! I decided to let my broody RSL hatch some chicks. I purchased fertilized eggs from a local farmer and 3 weeks later had 8 beautiful and colourful chicks. Fast forward 2 weeks and 2 days post hatch…. They are fighting! Like draw blood on the comb fighting. My biggest bully (who I for some...

Just wanted to confirm our suspicions, this little baby is a roo correct? Only about 4 weeks old, already seeing little waffles and red comb development

This is my 14 week old Royal Palm. I’ve always though she was a hen. I’ve never seen her strut and never heard her gobble. She does talk a lot, but no gobbles. Does it look like I’m right, she is a hen? Or is she a he? 🤔 Thanks!

I got my beautiful birds from a local farmer who guarantees hens. I’ve always had a feeling that this was a sneaky rooster, who has been growing bigger and faster than their sisters. I wanted to ask your opinions before I bother the farmer, do you think this is a rooster?

I’m interested in adding a black pullet chick to my flock with our next round of raising chicks. We live in a neighborhood, on about a half acre, and thankfully, our neighbors are for the most part cool with it, but I want to make sure we’re looking at quieter breeds. We are of course going to...

Hello everyone, I have two 10 week old silkies, please help sex, pretty sure I have the mixed bag of rooster and hen. The pics of the suspected hen are bad but she’s kind of skittish so I couldn’t get the greatest pics but she’s smaller than the one I think is a boy. Thank you in advance! 1...

First time user, bare with me here, you can answer whichever you like… 1. I’ve got 3 chicks, and I don’t know what their breeds are. Leghorns? Orpington? The two bigger ones (1&2) are supposedly 6 weeks and the 3rd is 5 weeks. Might be stupidly obvious, but I also want to know which is male...

I have 8 silkies that are 7-7.5 weeks old. I need help figuring out the sex, but I know it's a little early. I can provide more pictures if that helps. My guess behaviorally is that I have a lot of roosters.

Hi y’all, new to turkeys and was wondering what you guys think of this one? Super polite and curious with no aggression, no strutting, and no gobbling. Hatched on March 5th so almost 4 months old and is a Narragansett.

We purchased 2 Lavender Orpington chicks together, and now they are starting to look different. Need help to determine if one may be a rooster. #1 has always been a little bigger, so we thought it was just a tad older, it has the longer tail but a smaller comb and not a big wattle #2 is...