Are theese pullets or cockerels?

Zizix123

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Chicks are 2 weeks old and are BR. I took a back shot and a front shot have 6 all together.3 have no spot on their head and 3 do the last one I'm pretty sure is a cockerel.
 

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The female BR chick I ordered has a white spot on her head. For me personally, it's too young to tell. Post more pictures at about 8 weeks.
Happy chick raising!;)
 
1st order of business is to clear up the identification. The the chicks with no head spot at all are not barred rock. The presence of a had spot indicates the presence of the barring gene in a chicken. No head spot means no barring gene, meaning the bird is not a barred bird, and this is shown in the plumage your chicks are developing which has no barring pattern at all. My 1st suspicion on identification for those chicks is they are either black sex link pullets or potentially australorps.
For those chicks who are developing a barring pattern and who do have the head spot in their down, time will tell. Over the next week or 2 the emerging plumage pattern will determine whether you have pullets or cockerels.
 
The person I bought the hens from said they where plymouth barred rock hens and the rooster we got from a friend also said he was a plymouth barred rock. So what do I have here's a pic of the other 2 hens and our rooster
 

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1st order of business is to clear up the identification. The the chicks with no head spot at all are not barred rock. The presence of a had spot indicates the presence of the barring gene in a chicken. No head spot means no barring gene, meaning the bird is not a barred bird, and this is shown in the plumage your chicks are developing which has no barring pattern at all. My 1st suspicion on identification for those chicks is they are either black sex link pullets or potentially australorps.
For those chicks who are developing a barring pattern and who do have the head spot in their down, time will tell. Over the next week or 2 the emerging plumage pattern will determine whether you have pullets or cockerels.
Sorry I didn't reply to your comment to tag you please see my comment I made on page
 
That rooster is not a barred rock. Breeding these birds together should result in black sex linked chicks meaning those with no head spot are female and those with a head spot are male
Wow ok do you know what kind of hens and rooster we have.
 

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