Four Roos?

They are approximately 7 weeks now.

Please forgive my ignorance. I'm so new to this, I don't know what ISA means?
ISA brown is a breed (well actually it’s a TM'd brand name but I call it a breed) of chicken bred in France for maximum egg-laying. They are often the hens you buy eggs from at the grocery store. They usually lay an egg a day. They are very common and popular because they are sweet and lay a lot.
 
These are the best pics I have of them as chicks. Honestly, the feed store didn't even know how old they were.
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Btw, the cat loves them and sits outside to watch over them.
It's so cool that you can trust your cat with them, mine would eat any chicks in 2 seconds! Unfortunately those pics don't help too much...with sex links males are all white and females are red, so you can wait and see on that.
 
It's so cool that you can trust your cat with them, mine would eat any chicks in 2 seconds! Unfortunately those pics don't help too much...with sex links males are all white and females are red, so you can wait and see on that.
We weren't sure how the cat would react. At one point, when we were playing with them outside, he came screaming across the yard, stopped right in front of the white one, then laid down and snuggled her. Now, he will sit on top of or right next to our makeshift chicken tractor and make sure no one bothers them.💜
 
ISA browns and red sex links are the same breed. Sex links can only be sexed as baby chicks, as they will have a spot on their heads. I don't know what feed store would buy sex linked cockerels, so if the OP does have a cockerel it would be very surprising. Feather sexing is also often inaccurate and only works on day old chicks.
A spot on their heads? Like, a little black mark? One of them had that!
 
We weren't sure how the cat would react. At one point, when we were playing with them outside, he came screaming across the yard, stopped right in front of the white one, then laid down and snuggled her. Now, he will sit on top of or right next to our makeshift chicken tractor and make sure no one bothers them.💜
That's adorable! My cat regularly gives us the wonderful gift of a chipmunk on the porch, so chicks are similarly small, fluffy, and helpless, and the cat would decide that they are similarly delicious. My cat is very scared of our hens though, I put him down next to him, all it took was one 'bock cluck BOCK' and he went running :lau
 
Here my girls when I got them.
 

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Heres a male and female. Male is white, female red
 

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