Help me sex these Barred Rock chicks

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Hello everyone! I've got three chicks that I am raising for a neighbor, but I need some help interpreting the genders. They're 4 weeks old. Here are the culprits:

Suspected cockerel #1. Some pink coming in on the comb, but not quite as much white as I'd expect (his color is between the other two chicks). Thick legs. Very dominant and has even mounted another chick. Little stinker.


Suspected cockerel #2. Lots of white, but a very pale comb. Thick legs, as well. Has started squaring off with SC #1.


Suspected pullet. Lots of black, pale comb, non-aggressive. Also, she doesn't have a single comb, like the other two
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I know that's not an indicator of gender, but I thought it was interesting.
 
hdowden, what makes you say Dominique? That would be fine with me, but they were all supposed to have hatched from BR eggs.
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the barred pattern on that chick is considered cuckoo (uneven barring) and the rose comb (it maybe a single comb mixed with a rose comb which in this case would make it a barred rock x dominique mix)

barred rocks have even barring over their whole body and they have single combs
 
Okay. That would explain why she has a different comb. I thought I'd heard somewhere that rose combs can crop up in BR's, but I don't want to put any money on that, for fear that I'm thinking of a different breed.

Now to go research Dominiques *rubs hands together gleefully*
 
Rose comb could mean Dom in the background, but considering BR came from Doms that might be a normal odd comb. Pretty sure that is barring and not cuckoo. Doms are barred. Cuckoo is not really uneven barring, it is when the black and the white kinda fade into each other(gray areas) and there is not a stop and start like barring. At this age you can't tell cuckoo from barring, I know I have cuckoo marans and barred rocks growing up together and have to look at their feet to know the breed (white feet or yellow... feathered legs are a no brainer, but they don't all have feathered legs
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) The whiter ones are roos and the blacker ones are pullets. I would guess she just has an odd comb, unless someone didn't catch the combs in the roos or hens. If you don't know that the combs are different you would think you just had another BR.
 
Hey Red! A Dominique would be kind of awesome, but I would feel bad if it was not what the hatchery was supposed to send. Maybe they have a stealth Dom running around in their BR pen and they havent noticed....lol! I have heard the boys are usually lighter, so it sounds to me like you have these 3 right :) And those fuzzy heads just look like boys, the shorter beaks/big fuzzy heads....
 
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Going back and looking that is not a rose comb anyway. Looks just odd... not really a comb I have seen that is normal. It is probably just some kind of comb defect.
 

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