[Boxfanman]

I have three chicks and I think that two are cocks. Two have like a little skin tag, in what I would imagine to be the appropriate spot.

If they are cocks, I will keep one, but the other will be available FOC. They are Orpingtons.

[woodside farm]

Orpingtons are very hard to sex.
You think there are hens one day then the next they look like cockerels 
How old are they?

Michelle

[Kate and her Ducks]

Chicks genitalia is all internal so you won't be able to tell by any external skin tags. Vent sexing is possible but can cause damage in inexperienced hands.

[Boxfanman]

They are 4-5 days old.

[raeburg]

My 5 orpingtons all turned out to be girls, but it was almost impossible to sex them until they were quite big.  3 of them were always girls but the other 2 I couldn't decide.  Much easier now thy are all laying (or being broody)!

[woodside farm]

Usually the hens feather up a lot quicker than the cockerels at about 2 weeks old you can sort of tell, but only for a few days, but I have never been brave enough to get rid of the cockerels at that age, just in case 

Michelle

[urban-chickens]

what is the best way to sex?

with my polands its easy, but not on my RIR or light sussex

[woodside farm]

I thought with Light Sussex or RIR the combs on the cockerels where bigger early on?

Michelle xx

[Caralou]

what is the best way to sex?

with my polands its easy, but not on my RIR or light sussex

You found Polands easy  I found them an absolute nightmare. Only certain now they are four months old of what they are  (and wouldn't surprise me now if the boy laid an egg and the girl crowed  )

[urban-chickens]

what is the best way to sex?

with my polands its easy, but not on my RIR or light sussex

You found Polands easy  I found them an absolute nightmare. Only certain now they are four months old of what they are  (and wouldn't surprise me now if the boy laid an egg and the girl crowed  )

Boys have a small "dome" and girls a big "dome" easy as that! Also boys heads when older are spikey and girls fluffy 

[too many girls]

i find sexing polands impossible, even at hatch they are not all the same size so domes are kind of irrelevent, i still have 2 i'm not sure the sex of, cara will tell you how old they are because i can't remember

[Caralou]

Four months old now. Blackie has developed a boys head and Pudd is def a girl with her bonnet, but the 4 silver laced that came to you were impossible to tell. In fact only two I was ever certain on were your gold laced and Blackie - because they started chest bumping each other and stood out from the rest as arrogant little boys - but the rest were a mystery. Are the 2 both silver laced ones?

[too many girls]

yes, we call them Ashleigh, Emma, Laura, and Mary Kate Sanderson, but 2 of the Sanderson sisters might be brothers, oh i don't know.

[Caralou]

At least there's 3 girls in total, one boy and two maybes.... will have to wait to see if they crow or lay I guess. Keep waiting for Blackie to crow, he bok bok's at the ground when he finds treats for Pudd, but no crowing to date