3 week chicks

[sheila3935]

Looks to me like you have a couple of boys. The first picture the red in the front and the white in the front. They were already getting bigger combs then the others. But if the white is Leghorn the females get really hugh combs too. If you post another pic at this age I would be able to tell for sure. With my chicks I can usually tell by 3 weeks by the comb. Also the boys will be getting thicker legs and at 5 weeks will be ddeveloping their wattles.

 

[Chookin gooood]

I think production reds vary in color from batch to batch, i guess its because they are hybrids! But im not 100% sure

 

[mcarroll616]

Looks to me like you have a couple of boys. The first picture the red in the front and the white in the front. They were already getting bigger combs then the others. But if the white is Leghorn the females get really hugh combs too. If you post another pic at this age I would be able to tell for sure. With my chicks I can usually tell by 3 weeks by the comb. Also the boys will be getting thicker legs and at 5 weeks will be ddeveloping their wattles.

I sort of hope you are wrong! Haha. Oh well, I guess it happens.
I am starting to think they are older than I thought. I was told they were just a couple days old at TSC, but is it possible they were already a week or so? Looking at other peoples 4 week chick pictures our chickens look so much bigger.

I will try to take pictures the next couple of days. They are getting way too big for their brooder, and they are so dirty! I NEED to put them out in their coop this weekend, its getting gross in there!

 

[missnu01]

A lack of tail and a larger and redder comb that anyone else will usually make the males easy to spot. I was thinking your red chicks are red sexlinks, because I have 2 in the brooder that look a whole lot like your chicks, but if you have a male then they aren't sex links obviously. The white ones are leghorns though.

 

[debid]

These production layers are bred to be fast to mature. Having them start laying at 15-16 weeks is not unheard of and most will be in production at 20. A bit of comb growth now isn't necessarily a rooster.

A lack of tail and a larger and redder comb that anyone else will usually make the males easy to spot. I was thinking your red chicks are red sexlinks, because I have 2 in the brooder that look a whole lot like your chicks, but if you have a male then they aren't sex links obviously. The white ones are leghorns though.

 

Leghorns are pure white -- no black bleed like these have. Between the black splashes and the thicker build, CA White is very likely. Red sexlinks are typically a cross of a red rooster and white hen so that the male chicks are nearly solid white and the females are red with white shading toward the rear of varying degrees. These don't have ANY white so not likely to be sexlinks. Red hybrids (aka production red) are very common in feed store layer bins. They are sometimes mislabeled as New Hampshire or RIR but usually it will just say "red pullets" and you get several flavors of red mixes in there.

 

[mcarroll616]

I am not 100% sure, but I think the black you can see in the picture may be dirt. I am pretty sure they are all white. They will need to clean off first before I can say this for sure.

 

[mcarroll616]

 

[mcarroll616]

About 7 weeks in those pictures