Bantam Cochin gender

[GoatDragonFarms]

Your username is most excellent, @Oncoming Storm.
Where are you located?
I think I need to see photos of these crosses you mention, when it is convenient. You know, for science!

 

[Mybackyardpeepers]

Yeah I just thought of that a few hours ago. BTW your username is so cute. Ah well time to add the sixth roo to my collection. You’ll be hearing from me again soon. I have three naked necks and three silkies that I’ll need help sexing since they’re like the two hardest to tell. Mwahahaha the cycle never ends.

Thank you! Yup I hear yeah. I still have one silkie I'm a tad concerned about, but since she is cross beaked I'm having a hard time deciding what she is (she can't/doesn't groom herself well) and now I have added a blind Pekin duckling and a khaki Campbell to the mix. I just got good at chicken sexing!

 

[Oncoming Storm]

Your username is most excellent, @Oncoming Storm.
Where are you located?
I think I need to see photos of these crosses you mention, when it is convenient. You know, for science!

Danke! I’m located in north GA near Dalton.

Here’s a video I took earlier this afternoon.

 

[Oncoming Storm]

Thank you! Yup I hear yeah. I still have one silkie I'm a tad concerned about, but since she is cross beaked I'm having a hard time deciding what she is (she can't/doesn't groom herself well) and now I have added a blind Pekin duckling and a khaki Campbell to the mix. I just got good at chicken sexing!

Aww well I will definitely need you guys help.

 

[BreanneRN]

Well, Cochins are slow maturing birds, slow to feather, slow to crow, slow to start breeding/laying, but they are really sweet birds, so the chances are good that a roo will seem too nice to be a male... And the Cochin tail is different from other cockerels just because of the breed. Anyway, I believe I see pointy hackle feathers on the neck and that indicates a cockerel, that and the wattles and comb development.

 

[goldysgirl]

I vote cockerel. I have 2 bantam partridge cochin roos. In my bantam flock they would breed the hens and crow. I moved them to my other flock with a large fowl roo and hens and dominant polish bantam and they rarely crow and are very quiet altogether. I never see them breed the hens now and they stay on the margins of the flock. It is amazing how their behavior has changed based on pecking order.