[GladandGez]

Can anyone help me. I have 2 light Sussex Bantams that are about 5 months old, when I got them they were about 12 weeks old so it was still not guaranteed that they were both hens. However I'm still not sure if I have 2 hens or a cockerel and a hen as they look so different. Gladys is definitely a hen, but Geraldine is a lot larger and she is more muscular and her comb seems to be a lot larger. I'm worried she/he will wake the neighbours up one morning and suprise us all.

Would anyone be able to shed some light on whether I have 2 hens or one of each?

[WG.]

Welcome G&G.  Any chance of a picture please?  Plenty of chook experts on here but I'm not one of them.

[slowef]

Oh poor you I got lumbered with 3 cocks bought as POL hens, hope you aremore lucky.  Its very hard and as Munty says if its a cockerel it will crow!! I had one who crowed and 2 who made a weird noise

[babe]

im pretty sure that if one was a cockerel - you'd know by now. most start crowing at about 12 weeks i think.

someone will be along soon who can say for definate.

[richyrich7]

Hiya GladandGez welcome to the site.  

[slowef]

No they don't my Sussex were 22 weeks before they crowed

Sorry Happy that sounded so rude, I hope I didn't offend.  I think Sussex are  hardest to sex of any I have bought