5 week old mix, Boys vs Girls

Manningjw

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Oct 5, 2011
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These 10 chicks are mixes between White Leghorn, Black Australorp, Americauna(White Leghorn/Amercauna Roo over Austra-whites primarily). They each should have 1 pea comb gene and 1 single comb gene and with the Leghorn genes their pea combs will be quite large especially on the boys...

#1 about 99% sure this is a cockerel, he has a large 3 row pea comb. He is a handsome boy and I plan to keep this one (he protected our younger Red Stars from the other chickens).



#2 Leaning towards cockerel. Pea comb is getting largish but not as red.




#3 Barred possible hen, small comb but turning red so early worries me.



#4 Barred hen is what I think, what about you?


#5 Looks like a hen to me


#6 cockerel?



#7 I think cockerel


#8



#9 Hoping for one more hen... but I think I had bad odds with that



#10 Pretty confident this is a hen



What are your thoughts?
 
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I am still thinking 3, possibly 4 girls out of the 10 total but is it too early to tell? I want to start trying to rehome the "for sure" roosters asap so I don't have to process them later. I also want to give a friend of mine 2 of them that can safely say are hens not roosters as he lives in Seattle.
 

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