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I think you're right

13 weeks

Up date: second bird from the right in the last photo is growing long pointed saddle feathers and the other three have rounded wide ones

It's a shame that I can't keep roosters here. The backfence is on the boundry between a rural and residential zone so if i could move the run 2 metres north I could keep them.

Here are the same 4 birds now at 12 weeks

Always! I find it so frustrating when these threads never get proper closure

Here is what the parents looked like if it helps

Thanks. I'm fairly sure the one with thet tiny comb is a pullet. I was told they should be 7 - 8 weeks old. There are two factors that make me less sure about the genders and that is the mothers genes could be just about anything (although the black orpington traits look fairly dominant to me)...

Does it matter that they only look red some of the time? When they are all relaxed they look pale. They only go red when im bugging them with my camera

I am still going to keep them until even I can't deny it anymore but I think your right that 2, and quite probably 3, are roosters.

I recently got 4 chicks from a family member. Their dad was a purebreed black orpington and the mother was as much of a mixed breed as you can get. I have heard that sexing orpingtons is very difficult so I need some help with these. I was told that half the chicks had that hatched in that...

Rooster

I hatched 7 GLW chicks last week. Last time a hatched 7 chicks (BR) 5 of them were roos. How early can I sex them (without vent sexing)? is it 6-10 weeks or is there some trick to sexing GLW sooner? I am hoping for at least 3 pullets this time.

There is a humidity metre in there.

It has a reservoir of water on the side that has a tube that goes into the middle. With the air hole at the top fully open and the reservoir full it stays at about 45 -50% humidity. To increase humidity during lock down I just put milk bottle lids filled with water in a couple of empty egg slots...