Australorp chick-sposed to be pullet...

[gordonburrito]

Here's our Australorp girl a maybe a few days old when we got her

Approx 1 week later

About three weeks old here

Recent photo

What I've noticed in other peoples Australorp roos is the comb development happening much much sooner. Eventually she did sprout a nice red comb and wattles and then was laying eggs soon after.

 

[Mrs. Feathers]

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Australorps are usually very gentle and sweet (can you see my bias). I find that by 5 weeks the cockerels have quite significant comb development compared to the pullets and I have been 100% accurate in gender identifying from that point. You will probably know in a couple weeks and since you don`t have another BA to compare with it might be worth reposting then.
Crossing my fingers for you.

 

[IroquoisEgg]

I'll repost in a couple weeks and then we can get a better idea!

 

[Egghead_Jr]

I've yet to have Australorps. Hoping to next year as part of a black and white theme

A tidbit for sexing chicks I picked up during this first year of far too much research was to wave a hat or some such thing over them. The ones that stood up were male; pullets will instinctively squat down. Not sure how well that works but thought it pretty cool.

 

[eggburritos]

I say girl. My two pullets looked just like that!