Sexing week old chicks by examining wing pin feathers

[Folly's place]

Yes, and as these willow legged chicks are growing up, the slate is covering the willow color. The sire has slate legs from birth, and the hens willow. The first generation varied, not by sex, as chicks, but at six months of age, all their legs are darker.
Mary

 

[junebuggena]

Yes, and as these willow legged chicks are growing up, the slate is covering the willow color. The sire has slate legs from birth, and the hens willow. The first generation varies, not by sex, as chicks, but at six months of age, all their legs are darker.
Mary

The wash can darken with age, but it doesn't change the fact that they are willow legged. For slate, you need white skin.

 

[lazy gardener]

I've also had gender id working in my flock with comb color. The black female chicks all have a black comb at hatch, while the black male chicks have a traditional red comb. After sexual maturity, the black receeds out of the comb on the females, leaving them with the traditional red. Sometimes it takes a year for the black to completely disappear. It looks like a dusting of black, overlaying the red, before it completely goes away.

 

[Folly's place]

It's a very small group, and I like everything else about them! I'm fussing about a minor point, really. Hopefully I'll have a larger group of chicks this spring to work from...
These are the originals, and this year's look the same, and they are laying very nice aqua blue eggs, many! Mary

 

[lazy gardener]

Very, very nice.