Are these chicks meals or females? Please help

[Nichole pl]

Hello my name is Nichole I have 10 chicks I believe that are about 12 days old 5 Rhode Island Reds and 5 Amber links I heard that you can possibly tell by their wings and tail feathers if there boys or girls but Im not really sure .... all 5 Amber links have long tail feathers and long wings so I think they're female or maybe not lol does anyone know? With my Rhode Island Reds 3 have long wings and tail feathers and 2 have shorter wings with no tail feathers could these 2 possibly be boys? I would really like multiple opinions on this so I can be sure thanks please see pictures let me know what y'all think so much

 

[nuthatched]

Wing and tail feathers don't mean anything at this age.

 

[Rose the Legbar]

Much too early to tell. At around 5-7 weeks you can get much better of an idea of their sex.

 

[redinator]

Hello my name is Nichole I have 10 chicks I believe that are about 12 days old 5 Rhode Island Reds and 5 Amber links I heard that you can possibly tell by their wings and tail feathers if there boys or girls but Im not really sure .... all 5 Amber links have long tail feathers and long wings so I think they're female or maybe not lol does anyone know? With my Rhode Island Reds 3 have long wings and tail feathers and 2 have shorter wings with no tail feathers could these 2 possibly be boys? I would really like multiple opinions on this so I can be sure thanks please see pictures let me know what y'all think so much

Did you mean to call the boys "meals"? If not that's the funniest typo I've ever seen. Lol

If it was intentional, that's pretty fun too.

 

[BDutch]

If you want to sex in an early stage you better buy sex-linked hatchery eggs or chicks like Plymouth rocks.

 

[alpacasandchicks78]

Hello my name is Nichole I have 10 chicks I believe that are about 12 days old 5 Rhode Island Reds and 5 Amber links I heard that you can possibly tell by their wings and tail feathers if there boys or girls but Im not really sure .... all 5 Amber links have long tail feathers and long wings so I think they're female or maybe not lol does anyone know? With my Rhode Island Reds 3 have long wings and tail feathers and 2 have shorter wings with no tail feathers could these 2 possibly be boys? I would really like multiple opinions on this so I can be sure thanks please see pictures let me know what y'all think so much

Having had amberlinks the girls are yellow generally with 2 faint stripes down their backs and the boys are solid colored. Since they've started feathering it it's harder to tell for sure. It's been so long since we've had RIR chickens I wouldn't really be of much help there. If you put them next to Isa browns in separate brooders the coloring is the same but stripes much more vivid. Feel free to tag me back, I know how confusing it is being new at chicken keeping.

 

[Flockking]

If those are truly amber links then they should be males, females have a slightly light orange coloration

 

[BlindLemonChicken]

Did you mean to call the boys "meals"? If not that's the funniest typo I've ever seen. Lol

If it was intentional, that's pretty fun too.

Came here to say the same thing Love it!