Barred Rocks, what do you think? UPDATE: Now 5 weeks old.

[Smartie_Pants]

Some people say you can tell really early from the head spot, and the boys are a lighter color than the girls tend to be. My babies are one week old and I think I can kinda see signs already, but I want to see what you guys say.

1. This one is actually a dominique:

2.

3.

UPDATE:

They are now 5 weeks old and fully feathered. What do you think now? (The pics are in the same order as the ones above.)


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2.

3.

To me, 3 is obviously a roo and 2 is obviously a pullet. The dom has the coloring and body shape of a roo, but his comb is just barely red and his wattles haven't really grown at all like the BR roo. I think he is a roo, but how long will it take for his comb and wattles to develop?

 

[Teresaann24]

by my guess...they are still so young but...The dom..Pullet because of the shading of black on the frount of the leggs and #2 pullet because again the shading of black on the frount of the legs and #3 a roo.

Just a guess they are still so young.

 

[Smartie_Pants]

There are just so many ways out there people say you can tell, I just wanted to see what people thought. I was actually thinking roo, pullet, roo but I like your list much better.

 

[CindyS]

I am also going to say pullet pullet roo, the feather pattern on the first 2 both say pullet, also the dark on the front of the legs.

 

[Smartie_Pants]

So is the black a reliable sign?

 

[rodriguezpoultry]

I'm going to go opposite and say the dominique is cockerel and the Barred Rocks are pullets.

 

[Teresaann24]

I read along time ago that Dom chicks can be sexed by the shading on the legs that males will not have it and females will. When I raised doms I found this to be true by keeping only chicks with shaded legs and all turned out to be female.

I have also heard it works with BR's

I am no expert in BR's or Dom's I only raised them for a short time. I grew them up to laying age and sold them. They was a project from school when I was about 15 years old.

 

[CovenantCreek]

since I know nothing about Doms, I'll agree with everyone who says #1 is a pullet; #2 does seem to be feathering in dark, like my BR pullet did; #3 seems to be getting lighter feathers (or more stripped-y feathers) like my boys did so I'm gonna say cockerel

 

[Teresaann24]

This is what I found about sexing Dom's.

Reading over what I read before...I change my answer for The Dom to Roo.

Here is the link to help you...

http://www.dominiquechicken.com/Sexing_Dominique_chicks.html

 

[Smartie_Pants]

I've updated it with the newest pics of them. I am 100% sure 2 is a hen and 3 is a roo, and 99% sure 1 is also a roo. (The one percent is because his comb and roo aren't growing or really turning red. The feather color and tail position are all roo though.)