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Had our first break out this morning. We're still working on the run, so our outside pen is just some chicken wire and step in fence posts (they are always supervised outside). I looked up and "hey! girls, why are you two on the wrong side of the fence?" Paprika and Bibu found a spot where the...

Lately Limu is reminding me of a roadrunner (her hackles are up because a scary little butterfly flew past)

Apparently I am friend shaped. Lady Amalthea flew up to perch on my shoulder, and sat on my hand for several minutes after I took her off. She's still one of our flightiest chicks. But apparently she's down to cuddle on her terms. We have all the support posts for run in place. Once they set we...

The title of the post is "Is my 9 week old chicken actually a rooster" so the bird in question is 9 weeks old, regardless of what terms op uses in the post itself. Yes, chickens under one year of age are not technically considered hens or roosters, but that is not common knowledge for the...

That is a suspiciously large and red comb for 9 weeks, especially compared to [what I'm assuming] the same age bird in the background. And in the last two pictures it looks like there may be some pointy saddle feathers, although it could also just be the angle. I wouldn't feel 100% confident...

It's uncommon, but sometimes a hen will release two yolks either back to back or simultaneously and that can result in two separate eggs instead of a double yolker. Or the first egg can get caught up somewhere in the reproductive tract until the second one comes along and both get laid at the...

Finally got a picture of Artemis where she doesn't look like she's mad at the world!And a Bibu photo bomb!

Definitely not an orpington. Could be a polish or a polish mix.

At 5 weeks I would expect a comb that big to be a lot redder if your ancona was a male. Right now my vote is 3 pullets.

Wyandotte's can be tricky to sex because girls tend to pink up early. But right now they both look like pullets to me. I don't really see any differences in feathering other than color.

It really depends on your goals. If you just want to hatch chicks for fun and flock replenishment either would work equally well. At this age I'd keep both of them until you see what kind of personality they have and then choose the one with the better temperament. If you kept the ameraucana...

Pretty sure they're still sleeping in a pile on the coop floor, but look how good my babies are getting at perching!

olive Eggers are a catch all name for a mixed breed that has a strong potential to have both a blue egg gene and a dark egg gene. They can be made from a number of mixes so there's no real way of knowing unless the breeder/hatchery states what the mix is when advertising them. Marans are one of...

I would think mottled chocolate over cuckoo chocolate would give chocolate pullets split for mottled and chocolate cuckoo cockerels split for mottled.

But marans are single combed and this bird has a modified pea comb. My money's on olive egger cockerel.

Yeah, sorry they're all boys

Assuming your silkie isn't cuckoo, that would make the chicks sexlinked. Any barred chicks from a barred hen and a non barred rooster are always going to be male.

Was the hen the legbar or the silkie? I'm terrible with walnut combs but those look suspiciously large for pullets.

Husband finally got around to digging the postholes for the run today. It's going to be 20x20 completely covered. We won't be able to lay a hardware cloth skirt on the west side because it goes farther into the garden than anticipated and there are already pepper plants there. But we can always...

Both pullets. By now a cockerel's comb would be  bright red, can't miss it. Blue just has a bigger comb.