Help Sexing Mixed Batch Please!

[smudger28]

Hi guys

This is my last lot of chickens hatched this year that I need to try to decipher whether they are boy or girl.

They are 12 weeks old on Wednesday.

I think there are 3 Welshsummers, 2 Lavender Aracauna's & 4 Marans.

Thanks guys

Lavender Arracauna??? Maran hen

Lavender Arracauna???

Lavender Arracauna???

Maran Cock & 3 Maran Hens

Very back - Maran Cock, Middle - Maran Hens x3, left Arracauna Unknown

Maran Cock

From Left to Right - Welsh-Summer Cock, Maran Hen, Welsh-Summer Hen & Maran Hen

Maran Hen

White & Black Maran Cock?

Welsh Summer Hen?

2 Maran Hens? Welsh-Summer Cock?

 

[chrismahon]

Think two hens three boys Smudger. But until they crow you can't tell for certain and in a group of cockerels only one is allowed to crow -the dominant one. So you could have all cockerels and not know it. We have a cockerel who looks just like a huge hen. Only giveaway was that he crowed wen the sun burst through the clouds for 5 minutes at lunchtime. He was as surprised as they were and now he has gone back to behaving like a hen after getting a talking to by the dominant Bantam cockerel.

 

[smudger28]

Hi Chrism

Thanks for the reply again!

I was thinking nearly along the same lines.

3 darker Marans - Hens
1 light Maran - Cockerel (he is the bolshi bully of the pack) Looking forward to eating that one :wink:

3 Welsh-Summers - 2 Hens & 1 Cock

2 Aracauna's - Anyone's guess.....

You cannot see one of the other Welsh's but definitely looking hen like

 

[smudger28]

I've added my guestimations to the photo's!