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The brown leghorns are incredibly roostery. The RiR less so, but still look pretty roostery to me:

Worst come to worst we'll have a quiet winter, and start again in the spring.

It's been a week, and the leghorns are definitely roosters now. They're getting skinnier and taller, the tail feathers are getting longer, and the combs just keep getting more obvious. The reds are also probably boys. I'm probably going to keep them around until they start crowing anyway.

Pretty much like that! I don't have a picture from the first day we had them, but they were ridiculous little balls of helpless fluff, with tiny nubs for wings. These were taken a couple days after we picked them up:

We picked them up from a heritage breeding program at the University of Alberta, and they were supposed to have been hatched the day before we got them. They sure looked and acted a day old. I will say, it's been amazing watching them grow. I swear every morning they're bigger.

They were born on the 23rd of May. Maybe I'm feeding them too much. ;)

How can you tell? That sounds like a lot of chicken dinner in my future... we were looking for eggs here!

Hey, I have some five week old birds, and I'm really curious what they are. The birds in question Rhode Island Reds and Brown Leghorns, but I can't even guess what gender. Any thoughts? There's a missing leghorn in the picture, but (s)he looks just like the two that are pictured here.