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Hi all, first-time chicken mama here. I have two baby chicks about 2 weeks old and I just noticed something strange looking on my Lavender Orpington when I picked her up. At first I thought it was some huge creepy abscess on her shoulder, but upon closer inspection I think it might be her full...

Thanks for the input! We actually did end up with a roo (“Edith”) and the lady who gave him a home also took our crossbeak as a companion! She lives in the country and has experience working with crossbeak so it was perfect. Glad yours is doing well!

Thank you for responding, I was 98% sure but just wanted to know if there was a sliver of hope

UPDATE: “Edith” our Welsummer is looking more like a roo every day. Anyone want to give me any hope that (s)he might be a pullet (or just further confirmation that I am correct) before I find him a new flock?? Sadly we can’t keep roosters in the city :hit Hope it’s ok that I’m tagging people...

PS - if anyone stumbles upon this thread later and wants to weigh in, please do!

Will do. I’ve been researching a lot so hopefully we will be able to help her live semi-normally. Glad you said pullet - in another thread (about just her) 2/3 said cockerel!

I figured but I’m hoping for early thoughts, because if multiple of them screamed “rooster” I’d want to order more ;) can’t keep the boys sadly :hit hopefully the pics are decent!!

Yes, ordered sexed pullets. Hatched on 4/19

And finally, Lady Mary. The only one I *shouldn’t* have to worry about at all as she is a Black Star/Sexlink. Friendly, smart, alert, my smallest chick from day 1. I thought she’d be boring looking but she’s actually really cute. Thanks so much for your help and feedback, everyone! :love

Orla is one of my prettiest chicks, a SLW. She was the bossiest chick at first but she has mellowed out a lot. Very cute, moderately friendly, quiet and reserved with the other chicks.

3 more to go! Here’s Peggy, the Columbian Wyandotte. I get 100% girl vibes from her. We called her “Piggy Peggy” when we first got her because every time you looked in the brooder, she would be eating :lol: she has a very round body and big eyes. Feathering slowly. One of the friendlier girls.

Maple is my biggest chick, always has been. Another blue egg layer. She looks like a dinosaur between the hawklike face, alert eyes and thick dark legs. Not the friendliest, not the most standoffish.

Sadly no, we live in the suburbs! Wish I could though, I want a roo!

Fern is my WTG. One of my smaller chicks to start but she’s growing fast. She is hypervigilant, always has an eye on you. Fairly dominant, standoffish and quiet. She was the first one that I thought could be a boy but I don’t think that now. Thoughts?

As I feared :barnie hopefully the only one :fl

Winnie! She’s a blue egg layer (EE or WTB). She’s a fun one, very spunky. Hope she’s not a boy, though I haven’t been too worried (I hope??). One of my bigger chicks. She had a white spot on her head as a baby and is coming in sort of barred/laced.

My very favorite baby, my Light Brahma miss Sadie Hawkins. She is so sweet and chirps to be picked up. She has never felt like a roo to me and I’d be so sad if I had to part with her. Docile, adorable, super soft little sweetheart. Probably day 2 or 3 of being home Almost a month old

Here’s my other SS, Gwen. She’s one of my two favorites, very sweet. She’s never given me roo vibes but what do I know. She is more white on the chest than Sybil, and overall lighter in color. Spunky, curious and likes to fly out of the brooder and perch on your hand.

Next is Sybil, one of my two Speckled Sussex. She has always been much bigger than her sister, and she’s a more reddish mahogany color rather than her sister’s light chestnut coloring. Now her hackle feathers are coming in and making me nervous. From what I’ve read, though, SSs are hard to sex...

Next up is Edith. She’s a Welsummer, and I think her feathering and face shape are just beautiful. She had better be a girl, because I cleaned her poopy butt so many times!!! She has the most pronounced, reddest comb and wattles out of my whole flock. She’s fairly skittish too. Loves to roost...