Breed and gender help!

[HummingbirdMO]

Hello So, I'm completely new to having chickens and the past two weeks has been an experience, all fun thus far ;-) . I've been scouring this site during the wee hours of the morning to try and figure out exactly what types of chicks I have and their gender. I know it is a bit early on gender as they are only 4-5 weeks old, but I thought that maybe you experts can give a girl your opinion?

So I made this picture up of all my chicks....I think I got them all on there, may have a repeat of the yellowish red ones but my guesses are:

• 1-3 Barred Rock, pullets although I was worried that the one my granddaughter named Nightmare (lol) might be a lil boy, due to the spot on it's head being yellowish and irregular. They all have far more black than white on them now so I think they are all girls.
• 4-5 Im not sure, RIR maybe? Or Red sex link?
• 6-New Hampshire Red?
• 7-8 Gold laced Polish one of each gender, based on their crests (again I know its early I'm just guessing)
• 9-10- also New Hampshire Red
• 11-15 Having tons of trouble with these light colored babies...but suspect that #12 is a boy because it has almost no red.

We got them at a farm supply store, the clerk told us they were "around 2 weeks old" and the receipt said 3 RIR, 3 NHR, 3 BR, 2 Red Sex Links and I can't remember what else, seems like it was "assorted" something or other, maybe Bantams.





Thanks!!

 

[ramirezframing]

nicely done picture, but it makes it so we cant enlarge the picture enough to see the birds well. a good side shot and comb shot will help of each bird but the polish are gold laced and for the moment look like a pair from what I can see

 

[jellybellyx6]

Ramirez farming is right it is not easy to really tell with these pictures but I would say it does look like you have a few barred rock and maybe some red sexlink or production reds.

 

[chickensnewtome]

11, 13, and 15 really resemble my Buff Orpinton when it was smaller. I am with the above two on how hard it is to see them. Good luck tho

 

[HummingbirdMO]

Oh thanks for your replies! I think I made it smaller because I didn't want it to be huge lol!! I will see if I can't make it bigger or get some better pictures sometime today!!

 

[BantamFan4Life]

nicely done picture, but it makes it so we cant enlarge the picture enough to see the birds well. a good side shot and comb shot will help of each bird but the polish are gold laced and for the moment look like a pair from what I can see

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