Black Australorps 9 weeks old

[maceleneo]

@Egghead_Jr can I ask for your thoughts? https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/gender-guess-6-weeks-old.1564868/

 

[MarlaMac]

Hi, any update? I'm trying to sex my Australorp chicks and I'm curious!

Yes. Here are updated pics. #1 is definitely a cockerel. Pretty sure # 2 is also a cockerel. Many on my updated post believe so. I was hoping for only one and I would keep it, but now I need to get rid of at least one of the two.

 

[MarlaMac]

Hi, any update? I'm trying to sex my Australorp chicks and I'm curious!

Yes. The one in questions in this post is definitely a cockerel he is #1 in these pics. #2 is probably also a cockerel - seems to be the consensus in my new post.

 

[MarlaMac]

@Egghead_Jr can I ask for your thoughts? https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/gender-guess-6-weeks-old.1564868/

 

[MarlaMac]

Is that a White Australorp? So you have 2 blacks, 1 white and 1 blue? Your thread shows they are six weeks old. @3KillerBs would probably be a better judge. She raises Australorps. In my LIMITED knowledge, # 3 & #4 look like my cockerels at 6 weeks old. BUT I could be very wrong.

 

[maceleneo]

Is that a White Australorp? So you have 2 blacks, 1 white and 1 blue? Your thread shows they are six weeks old. @3KillerBs would probably be a better judge. She raises Australorps. In my LIMITED knowledge, # 3 & #4 look like my cockerels at 6 weeks old. BUT I could be very wrong.

Yes mine are supposed to be one white, one blue and two black Australorps, but I was told white Australorps should have darker beak and legs so now I'm not so sure! I'm sorry that you ended up with a few too many cockerels I'm in the same situation: if I have only one cockerel I can keep it, but I couldn't keep two cockerels more, so I'm still hoping just one of my black ones is male!

 

[MarlaMac]

Yes mine are supposed to be one white, one blue and two black Australorps, but I was told white Australorps should have darker beak and legs so now I'm not so sure! I'm sorry that you ended up with a few too many cockerels I'm in the same situation: if I have only one cockerel I can keep it, but I couldn't keep two cockerels more, so I'm still hoping just one of my black ones is male!

 

[MarlaMac]

Yes mine are supposed to be one white, one blue and two black Australorps, but I was told white Australorps should have darker beak and legs so now I'm not so sure! I'm sorry that you ended up with a few too many cockerels I'm in the same situation: if I have only one cockerel I can keep it, but I couldn't keep two cockerels more, so I'm still hoping just one of my black ones is male!

Interesting. Any pictures I have ever seen of the Austra White - they real name b/c they are not true australorps, but a cross between australorp and white leghorn - they all have light colored beaks. But again, I could be wrong.

 

[3KillerBs]

Interesting. Any pictures I have ever seen of the Austra White - they real name b/c they are not true australorps, but a cross between australorp and white leghorn - they all have light colored beaks. But again, I could be wrong.

White Australorps exist.

IIRC, they are more common in Australia and Europe than in the USA.

 

[PipersPeepers]

I have six roosters in a flock of 23 so you should be fine.