Barnevelder sexing help, please

[Chicken_mumma23]

Please note: I'm in Australia so I have used AUS spelling and weight measurements.

I have 2 unsexed double laced barnevelder chicks who are 4 weeks old.

I am increasingly sure the larger one is a roo... it's a full 50g heavier and growing quicker. Larger one has a redish small comb and wattle is growing, whereas smaller one is a very pale pink comb and no sign of wattle yet.

No behavioural differences between them.

Do we think two roos? Or will I have one of each?

 

[Gray Farms]

Both are cockerels

 

[Chicken_mumma23]

Both are cockerels

Thanks. Not the news I was hoping for but thanks for your help

 

[Somewhere_In_The_Clouds]

For my own I don't generally make guess till they're 5 weeks. I lean toward one still having the chance of pullet, the other definitely cockerel.

 

[Chicken_mumma23]

Thanks. I won't do anything about my guesses yet - I.e. a trip to a farm. But I can't help myself trying to make a guess. I reckon I'll know more in a week or two

 

[Fluster Cluck Acres]

The one in your right hand looks cockerel to me. The one in your left hand I’m leaning cockerel, too, but with less confidence.

 

[Chicken_mumma23]

I'll try to post updates pics in a week. I feel the same. Probably 2 cockrels- but maybe one of each.

 

[Chicalina]

Barnies are notoriously slow to develop so I'd say it's too early yet to know for sure. I'm leaning towards cockerels but don't make any decisions yet.

 

[BDutch]

Just to compare. 5 week old Barnevelders. You see one male and one female on this photo.
Source: the Dutch Chicken forum.

 

[Somewhere_In_The_Clouds]

If you'd like some more to compare. These are some of my first lot of Barnevelder chicks that I accurately sexed at 5, almost 6, weeks old.

Two cockerels in this pic, one in front other middle.
This was the only one of 11 that I had doubts about, is 100% a pullet.