Barred rock, but is it?

[hbernales]

Are there any particular Australorp characteristics that help determine sex at this age?

 

[oldhenlikesdogs]

Are there any particular Australorp characteristics that help determine sex at this age?

Pink combs by 6 weeks, red by 8. Yours look to be pullets if they are 6 weeks.

 

[hbernales]

 

[hbernales]

Pink combs by 6 weeks, red by 8. Yours look to be pullets if they are 6 weeks.

Update: so here are the mysterious BR or Australorp or something black chickens at 8 weeks. One has much more pink on the comb and face than the other. Is that one looking more rooster? "She" is the one in the front

 

[hbernales]

Update: so here are the mysterious BR or Australorp or something black chickens at 8 weeks. One has much more pink on the comb and face than the other. Is that one looking more rooster? "She" is the one in the front

And here is the second one.

 

[cstephens1987]

Both look like pullets and I still think primarily Australorp although I do see the slight barring here (and on retrospect in the one original picture as well). They may have a barring Gene but I'm still going Australorp pullet just not pure

 

[oldhenlikesdogs]

Pullets

 

[hbernales]

Both look like pullets and I still think primarily Australorp although I do see the slight barring here (and on retrospect in the one original picture as well). They may have a barring Gene but I'm still going Australorp pullet just not pure

Great, thanks!

 

[hbernales]

These 2 buff orps are still so.....neutral.... I can't even tell them apart, let alone tell their sex! 5 weeks old

 

[cstephens1987]

These 2 buff orps are still so.....neutral.... I can't even tell them apart, let alone tell their sex! 5 weeks old

Pullets. I mean it is still early but I'm not seeing a single roo sign