About 95% roosters.

[seriousbill]

Spurs are a secondary characteristic that doesn't develop until maturity--kind of like nipples on human babies. All babies are born with 'em, but that's not what you look at to tell the sex--geez

. Listen to the experienced people, folks. Look at the comb and wattles--those are the first things that develop to indicate sex on a chicken. The bottom chick looks to be a male based on the comb. The top two could go either way but look a little rooish to me. Give them another week or two and check for orangey color in the comb.

The pics show two production reds and a production Barred Rock.

 

[TheDuckCrew]

the grey looks like a roo, the others look like pullets but i'd wait to see how their combs grow.

 

[StrawberryHouseMouse]

It's hard to tell at that age. Or at all for some birds. As others have said already, spurs do not indicate rooster from hen at all. At any age. Some of my hens in the past have had bigger spurs then the roosters Ive had at adult ages. And some times hens have large combs too. Barred rock roosters tend to have smaller combs then a lot of other egg laying chickens. For example I've seen white leghorns get combs so big they flop over. The best way to tell is to wait till someone starts crowing or laying eggs. But by then you should be able to tell by the shapes of the bodies. Roosters tend to stand up higher then hens and hens tend to have rounder bodies and shorter tail feathers.

 

[AHappychick]

the ones you posted all look lke roos to me but I see no spurs just wattles and red combs coming in.

 

[Lu King]

I'll post more photos next week.
I've got so many baby chicks, there are bound to be one or two girls.

Anyway, thanks for comments.

 

[sandyj]

I don't see spurs, I just see 4 toes.

sandyj

 

[AHappychick]

yes you are bound to have some hens I cant imagine more than 60% roos although it is possible. The roos should all be starting to grow their wattles and their combs will be much redder than the pullets. The ones you know for sure are roos you can seperate them if you like and start giving broiler food to fatten them up. You should have a verry full freezer in another 10 weeks or so.

If you are gonna get that many again go with a hatchery this way you can order straight pullets (there will probably be a few roos that get mixed in but for over 25 you will pay under $2 for them anyway.

Good luck, if it makes you feel any better I have a bunch on their way to freezer camp this tuesday. Seems my hatch rate this winter was 75% roos

 

[Jennie5193]

Is the "spur" you're talking about about 1/2 as big as one of the toes - and growing in the opposite direction?


Honey, those are toes.

Welcome to chicken keeping!


I had 7 chickens that I just *knew* were pullets, until I walked outside and heard them all crowing their hearts out. There is still great hope for you to have many, many pullets.

 

[Chicktastic]

Those little nubs are the beginning of spurs IF the chick is male. But if the chicks is female then they stay just the same, as a little nub. We are talking about the tiny little dot on the inside of the leg above the last toe, right? Its about the size of a pin head in those shots.

As far as the combs. I's say the first is a pullet and the second is a rooster. But, I had two who I would have sworn were roosters. They had huge combs. That was until they started laying.

What can I say, I was wrong.

 

[cointoss]

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I totally agree. And I would add that depending on what kind of chickens these are, some of the girls may have big combs. So really, you are going to have to wait a bit. My Roo didn't grow spurs or have a bigger comb till he was about three months old. I wouldn't seperate them until I was sure...