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Thanks everybody for your help - unless I hear 'roo' from Speckled Hen or another super duper BR expert, I guess I'll keep them and hope for the best. It sounds like they look more like pullets than cockerels to most of you experienced BR owners. Last time I bought chicks from this feed store...

Quote: Oops. I forgot to mention that #1 is about 1 1/2 weeks old and #2 is a few days old (one was this week's shipment and one was last week's shipment). ZooMummy - That's encouraging - I hope you're right. It helps knowing that you have experience in this area.

Thanks. I was hoping to sex them early so that I can exchange them if they are roos. If I wait a few weeks before figuring out their sex and then take the chick/s back, the feed store will only have tiny ones again (I don't want to bring one 1-week old chick back home). I'm pretty sure the...

I've seen the info - I know about the legs, color, & headspot, but I still don't know what mine is. Chick #2 is dark, with very dark legs (almost all grey), but has a large headspot. Chick #1 has some dark wash, but not as much as the other - it doesn't have but a faint line for a headspot...

I'm pretty good at sexing older barred rock chicks, but it's the tiny babies that I can't get. I know females are darker, have a darker leg wash, but I can't figure out the headspots. I don't want to wait till they're older to find out the sex - if I accidently picked out a roo, I'd like to...