Help with sexing please

[smudger28]

Hi Guys

I have a mixed batch of eggs that I hatched last year. The chickens are 22 weeks old. I have identified the Exchequer Leghorns & Welsh Summer.

I need help sexing the Cuckoo Maran's and Lavender Araucana's.

Here are some pictures.

Thank you

 

[Icemaiden]

Looking at the first pic, the araucana on the left (in the middle of the pic) is male. The one on the right is female.

 

[smudger28]

Thanks for clearing that up Icemaiden 08

 

[Icemaiden]

I could hazard a guess as to the others, but I guess you could do that yourself 02

 

[smudger28]

Go on please be hazardous......

 

[Icemaiden]

OK; bearing in mind that I've only had hens for a few months, & don't have leghorns....:;
Pic 1 @ back- male marans. Far right- female (is that an exchequer leghorn?)
Pic 2: front two are males; dark marans hen behind.
Pic 3: left, on ramp: black hen (what breed?). Brown chested female. Male marans by drinker. Male leghorn? behind feeder. Female front right.

I reserve the right to be wrong tho' :|

 

[smudger28]

Hi Icemaiden

Thankyou for your best guess!

I was thinking this:

Pic 3 left to right Cuckoo Maran (Female), Exchequer Leghorn (Male), Welsh Summer (Female), Cuckoo Maran (Female), Lavender Araucuna (Male), Lavender Araucuna (Female), Exchequer Leghorn (Female). Back two chickens by feeder I think are Female Cuckoo Marans??

 

[smudger28]

Here try some moving pictures....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDKi3QEvAy8&feature=youtu.be

 

[Icemaiden]

Does the marans behind the feeder have sickle feathers in its tail? It's hard to assess its comb from that angle, but sickly feathers would make it a male
Hope you're right though...