can you visually sex day old Malines?
can you visually sex day old Malines?
I believe you should be able to. or at least most of the time. I have malines from 3 sources. Bulbs of Fire birds I hatched out, definitely can sex as day olds, the males are lighter than the females. My birds from Gwen Robertson are the same, the rooster is much lighter (I did not get those couple birds as chicks). I have a trio I bought from another breeder as 4 month old birds the rooster and both hens are all dark cuckoo pattern, so I am guessing as chicks they would have been hard to sex. But I have questions in my mind if they are pure, I am not breeding them.
I have 30 malines eggs going in the incubator tomorrow from a breeder in Calgary, his roosters are lighter than his hens, so I can guessing I should be able to sex the chicks.
I am trying to find a photo of the few chicks I hatched last summer, but no luck so far.
JimW
I have 30 malines eggs going in the incubator tomorrow from a breeder in Calgary, his roosters are lighter than his hens, so I can guessing I should be able to sex the chicks.
I am trying to find a photo of the few chicks I hatched last summer, but no luck so far.
JimW
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Keeping poultry with my 2 daughters since 2014.
Ayam cemani, BC Marans, Legbars (Gold Crele, Opal and White), Mosaics, Hmongs and Cuckoo Malines
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can you visually sex day old Malines?
Here is a photo of the cuckoo malines I hatched out from Bulbs of Fire eggs.
The lighter one is the male, darker one female. I only had 6 eggs, 4 hatched, 2 light and 2 dark, and both the light ones were males and both dark were girls.
JimW
The lighter one is the male, darker one female. I only had 6 eggs, 4 hatched, 2 light and 2 dark, and both the light ones were males and both dark were girls.
JimW
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Keeping poultry with my 2 daughters since 2014.
Ayam cemani, BC Marans, Legbars (Gold Crele, Opal and White), Mosaics, Hmongs and Cuckoo Malines
Black & Blue Poultry
https://www.facebook.com/groups/1357630357612951/
Ayam cemani, BC Marans, Legbars (Gold Crele, Opal and White), Mosaics, Hmongs and Cuckoo Malines
Black & Blue Poultry
https://www.facebook.com/groups/1357630357612951/