6 chicks at 2 months old, "assorted brown egg layers" from hatchery, 3 single comb, 3 rose comb... male/female???

Fowl-Mouth

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Turned 2 months old on May 26th. Too early to tell if male or female? Any ideas? Pics of all 6 chicks should be attached.
 

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4 of your 6 are sexlinks, so they are for sure girls.
I don't know the breeds of the other two, but they are pullets as well. :D

All pullets would be amazing! They were supposedly straight run when I picked them out of a big tub of chicks at the feed store.

Only 3 have single comb, and the other 3 have rose comb... so one of the other combs is a sex link as well? I kinda assumed early on that the single combs were all the same breed, and the rose combs were all the same breed, since they looked the same as day-olds. But maybe not! lol

Very new to production breeds... and haven't had chickens for many years, so re-learning a lot!
 
All pullets would be amazing! They were supposedly straight run when I picked them out of a big tub of chicks at the feed store.

Only 3 have single comb, and the other 3 have rose comb... so one of the other combs is a sex link as well? I kinda assumed early on that the single combs were all the same breed, and the rose combs were all the same breed, since they looked the same as day-olds. But maybe not! lol

Very new to production breeds... and haven't had chickens for many years, so re-learning a lot!
If that is the case, you got pretty great odds!

Oops, that's my bad. The 3 single combs are gold sexlinks, I believe.
Not sure what the other 3 are, as for breed.
Yeah, I think you were right to assume that, I think that same as well.

Production breed are pretty good, that only ting that I've seen a lot of people say , is they die sooner because of how many eggs that lay.
 
All pullets would be amazing! They were supposedly straight run when I picked them out of a big tub of chicks at the feed store.

Only 3 have single comb, and the other 3 have rose comb... so one of the other combs is a sex link as well? I kinda assumed early on that the single combs were all the same breed, and the rose combs were all the same breed, since they looked the same as day-olds. But maybe not! lol

Very new to production breeds... and haven't had chickens for many years, so re-learning a lot!
Some hatcheries (like Hoover's, I think?) get a red sex link (they often call them "Cinnamon Queens, but diff hatcheries use different mixes) by crossing RIR with black laced silver wyandottes. Wyandottes are supposed to have rose combs, though many have straight/carry straight, so they'll produce chicks with either straight or rose. They could all be the same mix.
 
Ok, as requested earlier, I tried to get some halfway decent full body pics of the gang.

Five of them have legbands, and they should all be showing in the pics. One of the rose combs has no legband, that one is named Nugget. lol

So, here we go! If you see any potential roosters, lemme know! I'm a little suspicious of Red legband, but no clue! lol

BLUE legband:
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GREEN legband, with Nugget in the second pic:
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PURPLE legband, also has a couple pretty spangles on the feather tips:
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YELLOW legband:
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RED legband, the one I'm a bit suspicious about:
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Some random group shots just for giggles:
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And finally, what I had to deal with multiple times when trying to get these pics:
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Dug around through my files, and here's some of their baby pics! :love
 

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