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Thank you! That helps :)

Thank you! How old is your little guy in these pictures for comparison?

Thank you for sharing!

Updated photos... almost 6 weeks... combs still look a little big but not huge. Really unsure at this point.

Worried that both of my two new chicks that were supposed to be pullets are roos. The combs look big to me but I do not have any other RIR's to compare them to. Hoping for good news since we cant keep roosters but wondering when I will know the truth for sure. They are currently 4 weeks.

Looks just like my pullets.

What age did it become obvious that he was a cockerel?

Thank you. Really hoping our suspicions are wrong since we are not allowed to keep roosters here.

So last week I was worried that one of these two might be a roo (the one with the lighter head). This week we are starting to think we either have two Roos or two pullets. Their combs look to be about the same size now. They were supposed to be sexed pulletd.

What did this little guy end up being? I have a RIR around the same age with a similar size comb.

I was wondering what your Alice turned out to be? I have a RIR around this age with a comb that looks exactly like this.

I planned to introduce them using the playpen method when they are around 6 weeks old. I am just not sure that will work the same way with only one chick if the other ends up being a roo

18 weeks...

Thank you. we have four other chickens but they are older. Will they accept one chick? We do have room to add on more than two, so not sure what to do it this one turns out to be a boy

We got these two cuties two weeks ago at Tractor supply. All of the chicks they had were on the bigger side for baby chicks so I think they were about a week old at the time. They are growing and feathering quickly. We are fairly certain the first chick, Millie, is a she (has a black stripe on...