Boys or girls?

[ChickenChick46]

Next up, gold laced wyandottes 5 months. Should be 1 roo 1 hen, but they look nearly the same to me. Couple of dudes?

I think these are pullets actually.

 

[jbj25]

Next up, gold laced wyandottes 5 months. Should be 1 roo 1 hen, but they look nearly the same to me. Couple of dudes?

Couple of girls going by the color pattern

 

[MommyGirl]

Next up, gold laced wyandottes 5 months. Should be 1 roo 1 hen, but they look nearly the same to me. Couple of dudes?

I think it’s 1 roo and one hen

 

[jbj25]

See the difference in the color pattern

 

[NatJ]

Next up, gold laced wyandottes 5 months. Should be 1 roo 1 hen, but they look nearly the same to me. Couple of dudes?

The Wyandottes both look like males to me.

Edited to add:
because of those skinny saddle feathers just in front of their tails. Not the wide rounded feathers that are seen in the photo of a hen that was recently posted.

I'm new to chickens (and awful so far). These are my 2 buff orps 16 weeks and are both supposed to be hens, but no way these are the same gender. Thoughts?

For the buff two, at 16 weeks, I'm not sure.

Have the combs been different sizes for a long time? If yes, probably one male (big comb) and one female (small comb).

If the combs were both small for a long time, and one just got big, you might have one female getting close to ready to lay (big comb) and one female that is developing more slowly (small comb).

So I'm not really sure on those two.

(And yes, I looked for skinny male saddle feathers, but couldn't decide if they were present or not: hard to see feather shape on solid colored birds, especially fluffy ones.)

 

[Rxevan]

The Wyandottes both look like males to me.

Edited to add:
because of those skinny saddle feathers just in front of their tails. Not the wide rounded feathers that are seen in the photo of a hen that was recently posted.


For the buff two, at 16 weeks, I'm not sure.

Have the combs been different sizes for a long time? If yes, probably one male (big comb) and one female (small comb).

If the combs were both small for a long time, and one just got big, you might have one female getting close to ready to lay (big comb) and one female that is developing more slowly (small comb).

So I'm not really sure on those two.

(And yes, I looked for skinny male saddle feathers, but couldn't decide if they were present or not: hard to see feather shape on solid colored birds, especially fluffy ones.)

I've had them for about 6 weeks and the one had a comb upon arrival, but it only started getting larger and red in the last week or two.

 

[Rxevan]

See the difference in the color pattern

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There was a for sure hen in their group that looked different. These two just look so similar in both color and size with the only difference being one has a flat comb on top but I'm very confident the other is all rooster.

 

[NatJ]

I've had them for about 6 weeks and the one had a comb upon arrival, but it only started getting larger and red in the last week or two.

Hmm. In that case, I think it's a little more likely that they are both females, but I really do not feel confident about that.

Since you've only had them for about 6 weeks, there is some chance of them being older or younger than you were told, which could tip things either direction. Also, Buff Orpingtons are known for maturing slowly, which could make it more likely that big-comb is male after all.

Sorry to be wishy-washy and unhelpful here.

There was a for sure hen in their group that looked different. These two just look so similar in both color and size with the only difference being one has a flat comb on top but I'm very confident the other is all rooster.

Wyandottes are supposed to have rose combs (the flat one), but it is fairly common for them to produce some chicks with single combs (the taller one). Either comb type can appear in either sex, and I think both combs are big enough and red enough to belong to males.

 

[jbj25]

Males are only supposed to have the gold on the chest is why I say they are both pullets.

 

[NatJ]

Males are only supposed to have the gold on the chest is why I say they are both pullets.

Supposed to, yes. But females don't grow saddle feathers, while males do sometimes have wrong coloring (which appears to be the case) and either sex can have the wrong comb type (which one definitely does). For that matter, they do not have particularly good coloring for females either.

So I think they are males with poor coloring for their breed, rather than being females.

Also, the one with a single comb has patches of darker red in the shoulder area, which is a trait usually seen in males (not in good males of this color variety, but much more common in males than in females of any color of chicken.)

[The only way a female grows pointy saddle feathers is if she has a hormone problem, and when that happens she grows male-colored feathers too. So male vs. female coloring would not help sort out the sex of a female with such a problem.]