3 little australorps!

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TINCHER

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hey! I am a new home owner and the very first thing i did was build a coop in my backyard! I have three two week old australorps... they were supposed to be sexed pullets, but two chicks have tail feathers and the third one doesn't so i'm starting to worry!!! i can't have a roo in the city so i was thinking of waiting another two weeks and if he still looks like a he i need to find him a new home and will possibly purchase two aracanas if possible.. who knows!!

if anyone knows the likelyhood i might have three pullets please let me know! thanks!
 
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Welcome to BYC!

While feathering can tell something about whether or not you have a pullet or a cockerel, it isn't always a positive ID. I have had tail less babies grow into pullets, I have had combs start to grow at day one after hatch and turn red at 2 weeks and still be a pullet, and I have had chicks that grow tall as bean stalks at 2 weeks towering over all the others and stay pullet. So you just can't tell at the age of your babies.

BUT....feel free to post pics here so we can have a look see! And when they grow up a bit more, in a few weeks you can post their pics in the What Gender section of BYC for some more positive ID...

https://www.backyardchickens.com/f/15/what-breed-or-gender-is-this

I keep Black Australorps as well and you will find they are a wonderful breed to keep! Very friendly and affectionate, great layers, quite hardy over all and mine are huge lap babies! Can't sit down anywhere without chickens wanting on my lap.

Great to have you aboard and enjoy your new babies!!
 
Hello :frow and Welcome to BYC! X2 what TwoCrows said, tail feather growth isn't a good way of telling which sex the chicks are, and post pictures of them in a few weeks on the What Gender forum...hopefully your chicks are just girls that are growing their feathers in at different rates. If you have room in your coop, and plan on getting more chickens, you might as well go and get those colored egg layers now! It is a lot easier to add chicks to a flock when they are really young.
 

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