Which colors mean female? (Duckwing pattern)

[rcstanley]

As I've been reading on BYC, I've seen mentioned that "duckwing" in colored chickens, you can tell gender by the color pattern. I have two chipmunk colored chicks that are feathering in duckwing. Does anyone know or can point me to an explanation about which patterns are male and which are female? If I have the terms wrong, please correct me (it might explain why my googling is coming up with nothing).

The chicks are silkie crosses, so if I can tell gender by feather pattern it might save me months of waiting

 

[PoultryQueen101]

Silver Duckwing is the same as Silver. Look up Silver Leghorn Chicks they should help.

Silver leghorns used to be silver duckwing leghorns.

But first I should ask. Which duckwing? Golden? Silver?

Male silver duckwing old english male.

 

[PoultryQueen101]

I sold my females and he died. But the females of silver duckwing are a light silvery grey with salmon chests and black main tail featheds.

Females should have "eyeliner" that is like a stripe horizontally through the eye.
Female old english. Brassy back imagine the black as a silvery grey with small light little doodles on each feather.

Male game grow their combs very fast. At around 3weeks old the combs should be very different.

 

[donrae]

As a rule of thumb, black breasts are male. Brown/salmon breasts are female.

do you have pics of your chicks? What colors are the parents, which parent is the silkie and what breed is the other parent?

 

[rcstanley]

Here they are as chicks. I'm not sure which parent was the silkie, I got them on the internet. I can tell they are silkie because they have the black skin and the 5 toes, but they've feathered out with hard/smooth feathers, so I'm pretty sure they're crossed with something else.

 

[rcstanley]

Here they are at four and a half weeks:

This one is a frizzle.

 

[donrae]

Here they are at four and a half weeks:

This one is a frizzle.

The top one looks female....so far
bottom, I can't say from the pic. Looks like it's a frizzle?

 

[BantamLover21]

As a rule of thumb, black breasts are male. Brown/salmon breasts are female.

do you have pics of your chicks? What colors are the parents, which parent is the silkie and what breed is the other parent?

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[drumstick diva]

Top one does look female to me but, bottom one, I don't believe is a frizzle. I think it's a clash of feather types, some of the silkie type meeting with hard feathers. I think after a couple of molts one type of feather will prevail.

 

[rcstanley]

Here's a better picture of the frizzled chick: