5 week old "Blue laced red wyandottes" what gender?

[TinyCluckingKnight]

Got these two at Wilco as chicks (sexed as pullets).

The first one, Abigail, is BIG into digging/scratching, but pretty timid socially. She is starting to get waddles that are a little red, but no pink on her beak/comb.




The other is Sunny, much more of a precocious and social bird, but also picks pecking order fights with the rest the most. She usually doesn't win, though. Her beak/comb has a more defined ridge than Abigail, but only just. No waddle development and no pinkish hue to comb.




Both developed tails and had long wings in the first week, but their feather patterning doesn't look like the 4-5 week pullets (or cockerels) that I've seen.

I know it's early and they are a notoriously difficult breed to sex before secondary characteristics develop.

 

[redinator]

Got these two at Wilco as chicks (sexed as pullets).

The first one, Abigail, is BIG into digging/scratching, but pretty timid socially. She is starting to get waddles that are a little red, but no pink on her beak/comb.

The other is Sunny, much more of a precocious and social bird, but also picks pecking order fights with the rest the most. She usually doesn't win, though. Her beak/comb has a more defined ridge than Abigail, but only just. No waddle development and no pinkish hue to comb.

Both developed tails and had long wings in the first week, but their feather patterning doesn't look like the 4-5 week pullets (or cockerels) that I've seen.

I know it's early and they are a notoriously difficult breed to sex before secondary characteristics develop.

Could you label the pictures? It's hard to tell the two apart.

 

[TinyCluckingKnight]

Could you label the pictures? It's hard to tell the two apart.

Updated! Couldn't figure out how to rename the photos but I included thumbnails after the relevant paragraphs.

 

[redinator]

Updated! Couldn't figure out how to rename the photos but I included thumbnails after the relevant paragraphs.

That works too, lol.

I'm seeing what you're seeing with the wattle development, on the first chick . . . that's a puzzler . . .

It might take another week or two to be sure since they're still feathering out. There are others on here that can tell by feather patterns, but I'm not there yet.

 

[TinyCluckingKnight]

That works too, lol.

I'm seeing what you're seeing with the wattle development, on the first chick . . . that's a puzzler . . .

It might take another week or two to be sure since they're still feathering out. There are others on here that can tell by feather patterns, but I'm not there yet.

Yah, and she was the one I was leaning more towards pullet based on her demeanor/stature. I've never kept Wyandottes before so I'm just shooting in the dark.

 

[redinator]

Yah, and she was the one I was leaning more towards pullet based on her demeanor/stature. I've never kept Wyandottes before so I'm just shooting in the dark.

I've decided it's safer to assume the nicer ones are males . . . it's like they know what's coming if they don't win you over quick . . . the little heartbreakers, lol.

 

[AinaWGSD]

They are just a little too young yet. Right now it could go either way.

Out of curiosity, why did you put "blue laced red" in quotes like that? They look like blr wyandottes to me. In these photos anyway they both look like a very dark blue to me. Then again, it took me probably 6 weeks to figure out my girl was, in fact, blue.

 

[TinyCluckingKnight]

They are just a little too young yet. Right now it could go either way.

Out of curiosity, why did you put "blue laced red" in quotes like that? They look like blr wyandottes to me. In these photos anyway they both look like a very dark blue to me. Then again, it took me probably 6 weeks to figure out my girl was, in fact, blue.

Mainly because that is what they were labeled as at the store, but I have no way of verifying it until they grow into their colors.

I know blue lacing can be so dark it's almost black, and so light it's almost white, and that sometimes black lace can be passed off as blue lace.

I just didn't want to claim what breed they are definitively.

 

[AinaWGSD]

That's fair. But even if they were black, coming out of a blue laced pen would still make them blue laced red. I was just wondering if there was concern they were mislabeled (as to breed)

My girl Marcille at 4 weeks.

Marcille now!

 

[TinyCluckingKnight]

Oh she is so pretty! The difference in color from chick to hen is so dramatic!