Can all 12 actually ALL be ROOS?!?! (photos added)

[GA_in_GA]

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The definite boys are only going to my friend's farm. Not far at all, and I can visit.

And followup when they crow or lay.

The rest will stay with me until they lay or crow. If they crow, they go to the farm!

 

[mama24]

Of the 3 SS you posted, I think only 1 is a for sure boy. I have a girl that looked like the first one that most are saying boy on. I thought she was a boy b/c she had the biggest comb of the group from earliest on. But now she's over 4 mos old and definitely a girl! Not saying I say yours is a girl for sure, but I think it may be a girl, not a definite boy at this point.

 

[hdowden]

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i have also noticed that ss can be hard to determin their sex the one with the large comb and isnt very red i am ify on but i will stick to my cockerel guess for now lol

 

[GA_in_GA]

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Since there are 4 SS, do you think the last 2 are pullets?

 

[CarolJ]

If it's any consolation to you - A few months ago I posted photos of four araucana chicks I had and asked for people's opinion about roo vs. pullet. The general consensus was that I had at least two roos - and probably three. As it turned out there was one roo and three pullets. The one that so many were certain was a roo turned out to be a very beautiful pullet. It's just a guessing game at this point. Good luck!

 

[GA_in_GA]

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Thanks. It is a guessing game. I am just hopeful that the 'guesse's for the pullets are right!

 

[mama24]

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Since there are 4 SS, do you think the last 2 are pullets?

Oh sorry! I think I thought 3 and 4 were the same bird, different angles! LOL. THose are dinitely girls! #2 is a boy, #1 is iffy, but looks like my girl at that age.

 

[GA_in_GA]

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Since there are 4 SS, do you think the last 2 are pullets?

Oh sorry! I think I thought 3 and 4 were the same bird, different angles! LOL. Those are dinitely girls! #2 is a boy, #1 is iffy, but looks like my girl at that age.

Thank you for your help. It will be interesting to see if SS#1 crows or lays an egg. Either SS#1 0r SS#2 has already crowed once. But I am not sure which one!!! Should have banded that one when it happened, but I don't know which one it is now!

 

[bargain]

Ugh, I'm not going to guess..... Last year, I thought I knew how to separate my boys and had some folks coming to get boys......MMMMMMM on the day of pick up 2 of my "boys" laid egg.... I wouldn't have believed it if I hadn't seen it happen........Those orps can have big legs - girls included.....Glad the crowers will be nearby in case they do not crow.

I have been doing some research on temperature and found one Australian study about the temperature dependent sex ratio in a incubation and this research applies only to a brush turkey, but I'm thinking about trying to replicate with chickens to see if it works.... Here's the study....

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1629050/

"Temperature significantly affected the number of male and females hatching from young (stage 1) eggs (figure 1; p=0.035; χ2-test: χ2=6.72, d.f.=2). More males hatched at 31 °C, more females at 36 °C, and the ratio was almost 1 : 1 at 34 °C. No sex bias was evident for older eggs (stages 2–4; figure 1)."

Since we have turkeys it might help increase the girls among them at any rate..

Here's hoping for girls...

 

[GA_in_GA]

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Nancy, it is nice to know even the girl orps can have big legs. These 3 BBS have HUGE hocks! The Lav Orp is diminutive in comparison. At least there are more pullets than I initially thought!