8.5 week old Speckled Sussex genders?

[MotherOfChickens]

Pullets. This is my SS at 7 weeks old. His comb and waddles started growing and getting red at 5 weeks.

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Oh wow! He really has the comb and wattles! Lol... well I wont worry then. Lol

 

[MotherOfChickens]

I know!! I have 20 chicks downstairs that are about to upgrade to the "big-girl" coop

LOL!!! I know how you feel! My babies just moved outside 3 nights ago

 

[MotherOfChickens]

Pullets. This is my SS at 7 weeks old. His comb and waddles started growing and getting red at 5 weeks.

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Something else I noticed, your cockerel is BIG! That is like my Welsummer cockerel. I knew he was a roo at 1.5 weeks. He is twice the size of my Speckled babies and they are all the same age!

 

[CannedMonster]

Something else I noticed, your cockerel is BIG! That is like my Welsummer cockerel. I knew he was a roo at 1.5 weeks. He is twice the size of my Speckled babies and they are all the same age!

I have 5 NN chicks that are 8 weeks old and the 3 boys have been bigger from about 10 days to 2 weeks old.
The 2 girls are about half their size.

 

[Amanda0419]

Something else I noticed, your cockerel is BIG! That is like my Welsummer cockerel. I knew he was a roo at 1.5 weeks. He is twice the size of my Speckled babies and they are all the same age!

He is big and the sweetest thing too. He was originally the smallest and he just kept growing. I wish I could keep him but my township requires 5 acres to keep a rooster and we only have 3

 

[MotherOfChickens]

He is big and the sweetest thing too. He was originally the smallest and he just kept growing. I wish I could keep him but my township requires 5 acres to keep a rooster and we only have 3

Im not keeping my Wellsummer cockerel. He is going to go live 1/2 a mile up the road from me, on a farm

 

[Snazzy98]

 

[Snazzy98]

I hy ave a barred rock.. I was told it's all hens. This is my biggest one I was told 3 to 5 weeks old just got them 2 to 3 days ago.

 

[MotherOfChickens]

I hy ave a barred rock.. I was told it's all hens. This is my biggest one I was told 3 to 5 weeks old just got them 2 to 3 days ago.

I think in BR the hens are darker than the roos.

 

[Frazzemrat1]

I hy ave a barred rock.. I was told it's all hens. This is my biggest one I was told 3 to 5 weeks old just got them 2 to 3 days ago.

I think in BR the hens are darker than the roos.

BR males are lighter in color than females, because their dark bars are slimmer than the females wider bars.
@Snazzy98 that's a cockerel.