1st time Chicken Mama Need Help w/Gender

[talkinboutchickens]

All pullets!!
This was a 1 month and around 3 week old male my hens hatched last year. Keep in mind... He is only about 2 months old in this pic with wattles and a comb bigger than your 11 week old girls' combs and wattles!

Also...
Cockerels have:
Stockier legs
Different behavior (they may chest bump with other chicks)
"Stockier" heads...(I don't know how else to explain it lol!)
And if your chick is a sexlinked breed, such as a barred rock, black sexlink, red sexlink, cream legbar, sapphire gem, etc. then, depending on the gender, their down feathers and/or legs will look different at birth compared to one another...With sapphire gems, males will have a white dot on their head. Females will have all dark feathers I think...With barred rocks, male chicks will have a more prominent white dot on their head than females and there are other noticable differences as well. I hope this helps
https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/sight-sexing-barred-plymouth-rock-chicks-at-hatch.798635/

And Welcome to BYC!

 

[ADHilse]

All pullets!!
This was a 1 month and around 3 week old male my hens hatched last year. Keep in mind... He is only about 2 months old in this pic with wattles and a comb bigger than your 11 week old girls' combs and wattles!
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Also...
Cockerels have:
Stockier legs
Different behavior (they may chest bump with other chicks)
"Stockier" heads...(I don't know how else to explain it lol!)
And if your chick is a sexlinked breed, such as a barred rock, black sexlink, red sexlink, cream legbar, sapphire gem, etc. then, depending on the gender, their down feathers and/or legs will look different at birth compared to one another...With sapphire gems, males will have a white dot on their head. Females will have all dark feathers I think...With barred rocks, male chicks will have a more prominent white dot on their head than females and there are other noticable differences as well. I hope this helps
https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/sight-sexing-barred-plymouth-rock-chicks-at-hatch.798635/

And Welcome to BYC!

Thank you! That is so helpful

 

[ADHilse]

Thank you! That is so helpful

The funny thing is that when I was picking out my chicks, I was just kinda looking for girl vibes/energy. My husband and I joked that I picked all roos. Turns out I picked all girls. Lol.