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Thank you for your replies everyone, I did suspect both Poppy and Brownie were cockerels just hoping Brownie wasn't as his feathering is quite lovely. And feeling a little bit annoyed as I was told I was buying Barnevelder fertile eggs and now I don't know what I've got.

I bought fertile eggs and put them under my broody girl which she duly hatched for me, three are Barnevelders but all three look so very different, they are now 6 weeks old and can tell I have one pullet for sure but the other two I do not know, one is so much bigger than the others and the...

All roos in the end

I hatched some GLW eggs in March 2012 and got two hens, one has beautiful dark lacing ( Goldilocks) and the other is quite ordinary looking, they both started laying around October last year, layed for nearly a month and then Goldilocks went broody in the wool bale full of clean straw I use for...

Not sure what she is crossed with, could be a couple of different breeds, she does have gingery/gold pointy neck feathers though.

Not sure what shes crossed with, could be a couple of different breeds but she does have gingery/gold pointy neck feathers. got her from a friend who has about 70 chooks just freeranging and they have lost of breeding partners to choose from and lots of places to hide nests, some just go missing...

This is my big and beautiful australorp cross Pepper with her six chicks she incubated and hatched. I just love the way her black feathers have an iridescent green sheen, this picture does not do her size justice, everyone that comes to our house cannot believe how big she is even though she is...

Here is a photo of my GLW pullets at 14 weeks, they are now 21 weeks and definitely girls, you can see their comb and wattles are barely there at 14 weeks.

Well this morning at 7am we heard numerous crowing attempts from one of them, so I guess if one is a roo then the other two must be as well?? Thanks to everyone for their posts and pictures on this, I guess I was living in hope that they were pullets.

How much longer do you think? what am I looking for?

Thanks heaps, they do have some black feathers in their messy tails though, how come some people are still adamant they are roosters? So I just wait a couple more weeks for either eggs or crowing then??

We are now at 16 weeks and I don't know, some people have said roos, some pullets and I am confused, either way I will need to make plans for them preferably before any crowing begins as seven chickens is too many for our section size. All three look very similar to me nothing really different...

I'm from NZ too and my girls both started laying this month after their moults, not worried about what time of year, they have their own clock and it is past the shortest day now so yours should be all good.

Does their baby day to day peeping sound change to a deeper one as they near point of lay? One of my RIR nearly 16 weeks has a slightly redder comb and the sound it makes is not a baby peep anymore but different like my older laying girls. Or is this not anything to do with it?

Thanks, fingers crossed, would love to see pics of your boy and girl.

New pics of my RIR's as still not sure of gender. 14 weeks old now and nothing is obvious to me.