Are these buff orpingtons and: please tell me I don't have a rooster.

[lindseythefork]

So, I got these three little buff orpington hens five weeks ago from the feed store. Only one is SUPER light and the other two are all spotty (blonde with brown, mostly in the shoulder area). And there's this one with a bigger comb and yeah.. not too happy with the feed store. I think I have one blonde buff orpington and maybe two sexlinks. My main question is: the one with a comb- does it look like a rooster?? They're almost six weeks old, wouldn't it start to try to crow by now if it were?

I asked the feed store what the deal was with them not looking like BOs and their answer was "That's what you get with commercial hatcheries- color variation."

Also, one chicken has a weird eye. lol Man, I lucked out with chicks this year.

 

[ChickBond 007]

Shhhh, listen, cockadoodle-dooooooo larger comb, much larger sturdier legs. He's got the legs, not the eggs, baby.
My guess is Roo

 

[Mourningdove]

Those are not buff orpingtons, sorry. They look more like a white rock cross.

 

[lindseythefork]

I will refrain from screaming what I really am thinking right now. AAAHHHHH. Freakin' A, man. I KNEW these didn't look like BOs. I wish the feed store were open today. >

 

[Garden Gal]

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: hit:l au

 

[farmerlor]

Yeah, that guy in front is a roo and neither of them look like BOs.

 

[wyliefarms]

They look our meat chickens.... front one a roo. I would switch to some meat bird food and find a processer near you, few weeks and they will be ready for the freezer!

 

[DouglasPeeps]

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Agree

 

[farmgirlie1031]

They are not BOs even Bos with a color variation on the buff. Sometimes you will get a lighter shade of buff or a darker shade of buff but not that light of a shade. They look more white to me. And I think that first one is a roo. Maybe a Cornish cross

 

[kentuckysilkies]

Both are roosters. They appear to be males from Red Sexlinks.