Help in sexing 8 week old peachick

[old biddy]

This is my one and only hatch for the year...8 week old Black Shoulder peachick. I know it is hard to tell gender at this young age but I am hoping to get some opinions from my BYC experts!

 

[Dany12]

Male !

 

[Chickenhappy8708]

I love peafowl! But I honesty have no clue on gender, can't wait to see how he turns out.

 

[old biddy]

Male !

I was hoping for a male! How can you tell?

 

[PuraStar]

Looks like a hen to me, but I’m still new...

 

[old biddy]

Looks like a hen to me, but I’m still new...

Thanks PuraStar. What makes you think it is a hen? I am trying to get better at seeing the clues.

 

[debbiexdeby]

Looks like a hen to me I have 3 black shoulder peachicks and my female looks exactly like yours

This is my 8-week old black shoulder male. See the mostly black feathers on its upper back? Yours doesn’t have those, so I’m pretty sure it’s a hen! I’m fairly new at this too but hope I could help!

 

[PuraStar]

females are lighter and males are darker
the males feathers at the tips will get dark and continue to get dark also the tail feathers will be black/dark gray and females have light gray.

 

[PuraStar]

i'll see if i can get a side by side at the same age for you, I have 1 male and 1 female BS

 

[PuraStar]

cock is the left Hen is right