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post #11 of 22
3/29/12 at 7:41am

I think it's the lighting in the picture messing it up.  I think it's a pullet.

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Breeding Welsummers and Barnevelders.

 

Having an Icelandic in the coop is like having a 2 year old in the house - they are into everything and don't follow the rules.

I have zero chicken willpower.

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post #12 of 22
3/29/12 at 2:46pm

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The little black one is a female at 3 days old.  She has a distinct white spot on her head and black legs.

 

Hope that helps :)

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post #13 of 22
3/29/12 at 4:11pm

Angela - yours is for sure a pullet.

Breeding Welsummers and Barnevelders.

 

Having an Icelandic in the coop is like having a 2 year old in the house - they are into everything and don't follow the rules.

I have zero chicken willpower.

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Breeding Welsummers and Barnevelders.

 

Having an Icelandic in the coop is like having a 2 year old in the house - they are into everything and don't follow the rules.

I have zero chicken willpower.

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post #14 of 22
3/29/12 at 4:18pm

Ill def be usin that pic as a reference when I go back for more BRs. Hopefully they have some that are that picture perfect.

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Wife to an amazing man, mother to 3 kids, 4 dogs, 1 goldfish, 2 calves, and 17 little chickies. Looking forward to expanding our homestead.

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post #15 of 22
3/29/12 at 4:18pm

We got barred rock chicks this year, and one of ours looked exackly like yours. They were sexed, and they said ours was a girl. So far she has been acting like a hen....She is afraid of everything, but likes to be held!  I hope this helped!

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post #16 of 22
3/29/12 at 4:56pm

Cockerels are more "gray" looking - here's a cockerel.

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Breeding Welsummers and Barnevelders.

 

Having an Icelandic in the coop is like having a 2 year old in the house - they are into everything and don't follow the rules.

I have zero chicken willpower.

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Breeding Welsummers and Barnevelders.

 

Having an Icelandic in the coop is like having a 2 year old in the house - they are into everything and don't follow the rules.

I have zero chicken willpower.

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post #17 of 22
3/29/12 at 6:35pm

Yeah, I would think pullet. As Happy Chooks said, cockerals are more grey. Do you think you could get a picture with better lighting? That might help.

I have five hens and two pullets- one seven year old red star, Luna, one white leghorn, Sage, one SLW, Pepper, one adorable fluffy EE, Bedazzle, and one black star, Buckbeak. My two pullets are Nutella, my wheaten marans, thirty five weeks, (who is yet to lay an egg!), and her best friend, Sammy, seventeen weeks.

 

 

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I have five hens and two pullets- one seven year old red star, Luna, one white leghorn, Sage, one SLW, Pepper, one adorable fluffy EE, Bedazzle, and one black star, Buckbeak. My two pullets are Nutella, my wheaten marans, thirty five weeks, (who is yet to lay an egg!), and her best friend, Sammy, seventeen weeks.

 

 

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post #18 of 22
3/31/12 at 5:27am
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I'll try to get a better pic today. I bought a sexed barred rock pullet yesterday when I was getting some ducks at Southern States, and they look almost identical. I am definitely buying all my chicks there from now on to avoid to stupidity of TSC. lol. They're cheaper anyway and my goats prefer their brand goat feed.

Wendy, chemist, mama to 4 human children, a crazy Husky/Australian Shepherd cross dog, a cat, several fish, bunnies, 17 goats,and our ever growing flock of chickens, ducks, turkeys, and geese.

My oldest son is breeding BBS Orps! Looking for breeding stock!

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Wendy, chemist, mama to 4 human children, a crazy Husky/Australian Shepherd cross dog, a cat, several fish, bunnies, 17 goats,and our ever growing flock of chickens, ducks, turkeys, and geese.

My oldest son is breeding BBS Orps! Looking for breeding stock!

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post #19 of 22
3/31/12 at 6:31am

I wonder if the feed store messed up the signing on the chicks. That head spot looks boy. But if you say its darker then the picture and the black on the legs, it could be a Black Sex Link boy. I learned that the hard way. I bought what I thought was 6 barred rocks. Ended up I got 4 male BSL's and one barred rock pullet and one cockrel. The BSL cockrels look just like BR's only they have the black wash down the legs. I really hope you have a pullet, but looks like boy to me.

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post #20 of 22
3/31/12 at 1:32pm

Black wash on the front of the legs = pullet.

 

 

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