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

[ShrekDawg]

All look like pullets.

Agreed

 

[labelo]

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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Looking closer... does Red (and nugget and lavender?) have the rose comb? It looks like it from the pictures, but unsure. They are all the darker chickens with some black in their wings?
If so, they are almost certainly a Cinnamon Queen from a RIRxSLW, and because they're red (rather than silver/light yellowish color), they are pullets.

I can't be sure on the lighter colored ones, but they look like they could be what Hoover calls ISA Browns (RIRxRIW), and if so, they're pullets (males are much lighter).
Were they all from the same hatchery? Do you know which one?

 

[aart]

None have obviously red comb/wattles that would indicate males.
8 weeks is too young to be showing gender specific feathering.

 

[Fowl-Mouth]

Looking closer... does Red (and nugget and lavender?) have the rose comb? It looks like it from the pictures, but unsure. They are all the darker chickens with some black in their wings?
If so, they are almost certainly a Cinnamon Queen from a RIRxSLW, and because they're red (rather than silver/light yellowish color), they are pullets.

I can't be sure on the lighter colored ones, but they look like they could be what Hoover calls ISA Browns (RIRxRIW), and if so, they're pullets (males are much lighter).
Were they all from the same hatchery? Do you know which one?

Red, Nugget, and Purple/Lavender are all the rose combs, yep! The darker colored ones out of the six.

They were all supposedly from Hoovers Hatchery, from what the feed store said. But they were all supposed to be straight run, assorted brown egg layers. They were $3 a piece back on March 26th.

If I somehow managed to pick out 6 females from a bin of around 100 straight run chicks, I feel incredibly lucky! lol