Brabanters !!! not sure on sex...

Scsrlettwild

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Sep 10, 2022
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I added 5 Brabanters to my flock. I was supposed to get 5 pullets and a cockerel. The owner wasn't home and her husband caught the little ones, so there may be a chance I accidently got more than one boy.
However, they are only 13 weeks old and I'm not sure which may be which. I have to send the pictures to the former owner as well, but I know she is very busy so I thought I'd ask here first...
I may split up the post by each chick for ease of keeping them apart..

This is the one I suspect of being a cockerel, I call it "big red"

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This one is the smaller "red" (golden) one, I hope its a pullet? Call her smaller red for now..
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this one I call "hairy cream" for now, because she has a seriously full head of hair, lol, at least I hope its a "her"

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Last one... I call "little cream" for now, its small, and has a small crest. I tend to think cockerel, despite the small size, because their is so much "skin" rather than fluff. I could be wrong of course. If I have more than one cockerel, the seller will swap out the cockerels for hens. Since I only have 16 chickens, I don't want more than 2 roosters and I already have a silky roo..

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I forgot to say..

THANK YOU!!!! For all the help and guesses and ideas !!!! Really appreciate it :) This chicken keeping has gotten a lot more complicated since I last had chickens (and they were healthy and never had problems then, either, lol...)
 
That would be so odd to me..
The golden ones were supposed to be all pullets (sex linked? or sexed at chicks) And those now seem to be the cockerels.
I don't mind keeping one cockerel, but the rest needs to be hens. Seems I have to make another trip to swap some. May give it a week or so, but hate to go through the "introduction" to the flock again, poor littles. They have just now started to fit in somewhat..
 

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