English orpington gender help!

Hi! I am new to raising english orps and I am so lost on these two regarding gender. I was hoping someone familiar with the breed could help

I bought hatching eggs early in the season before the breeder was offering chicks (I was so excited, three weeks in an Incubator was better than three month waitlist! She warned me that they had just started to lay for the season and I may not have great fertility. She was right, only 5 out of 12 fertile. I ended up with four beautiful healthy chicks, three black and one chocolate. The chocolate I am pretty sure is a girl because she has the smallest comb but the three blacks are not that drastically different. Only two are pictures because one would not cooperate! They are 11 weeks old tomorrow and are the slowest to develop out of all the chickens I have ever raised. They are still working on feathering out. I thought they were sickly or had a vitamin deficiency in the beginning but the breeder assured me that it is typical for the breed. These two are black and very dense though they may not look it. They don't act particlarly different from other chicks. And as you can see they are still working on feathering. Particularly the tails. Please let me know your opinions thx!

For 11 weeks they all look like pullets. I know that orpingtons are slow to develop so I'm not 100% sold on pullets, but I'm pretty sure they are all the same gender either all pullets or all cockerels.

Hatching said:

For 11 weeks they all look like pullets. I know that orpingtons are slow to develop so I'm not 100% sold on pullets, but I'm pretty sure they are all the same gender either all pullets or all cockerels.

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Thx I agree that they are either boys or girls as they look nearly identical Most roos I have of other breeds at 11 weeks are 2-3 times as big and have obvious red comb and wattles, which is why I am so unsure of these Chooks. i am leaning boy but I would love if they were all girls !!!

Anyone else?

I have a buyer interested in a roo and I want to be sure before I sell

All look like pullets to me (of course because you WANT a cockerel!).

HighStreetCoop said:

All look like pullets to me (of course because you WANT a cockerel!).

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Actually I would be thrilled with all girls! I can sell the extra girlies for twice as much as any boys ;-) we have a small backyard flock so we are only planning in keeping two girls for laying and to watch chicken TV in our backyard

They look like pullets to me.

Wyandottes7 said:

They look like pullets to me.

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Okay lots of ppl say pullets which is awesome! However, the breeder emailed me and said roos again? What now lol

Now you wait and see. My boys looked like THIS at that age: