Breed? Gender? "Rescue Chicks"

[proxieme]

My neighbor's friend took in some chicks that had been hatched and raised by her daughter's class. After a few days, she discovered that a townhouse isn't exactly conducive to that idea, so I agreed to take them (with the warning that I wouldn't keep any roosters - we only live on 5 acres and I like my neighbors too much to have multiple roos).

Sooo, I have no idea about their breed because she had no idea. They all are between 4 and 6 weeks old.

I'm pretty sure that these two are roos about two weeks apart in age:

Now this one, I'm not so sure:

His/her comb, while larger than that of the other chick breeds that I have (RIR, barred rock, and olive egger) is still smaller than the the younger definite-roo's of the same breed and is not flopping over (as are both of the combs of his/her compatriots).

What do you all think?

Re: the breed: I thought perhaps buff brahma, but the pics that I can find all have pea combs.

 

[Mountain Peeps]

Both are male. Unsure of breed. Maybe red sex-link?

 

[proxieme]

Here are a few more of the him/her:

I forgot to add that s/he's already bigger than my other chicks, too, which are probably at least two weeks older than her.

 

[proxieme]

Aw, that stinks. Even the one at bottom?

 

[proxieme]

Re: red sex link: Looking at some pics, that's a good guess.

 

[Mountain Peeps]

Aw, that stinks. Even the one at bottom?

The bottom one MIGHT be a girl.

 

[Table4Six]

Quote: x2

 

[BantamLover21]

They all look like some sort of red breed/mix (production red, red sex-link, etc.) cockerels, though it is possible that the last one is a pullet.

 

[proxieme]

Thanks, everyone. For now, we have the two definite-cockerels in our baby coop (they'll eventually go to freezer camp) and the maybe-pullet (we've named it He-she) in with our pullets.