Future roosters or hens?

[Robert G]

So my old English speckled hen had 2 chicks and I noticed their combs began to grow and were bright red. A couple of weeks later I don't see the feathers a rooster would start to get. So now I'm thinking they are hens. What are your thoughts?

 

[HuskerHens18]

I think they look like hens, but I was recently very wrong on a different thread so don't quote me

They are all very beautiful by the way

 

[Robert G]

I think they look like hens, but I was recently very wrong on a different thread so don't quote me

They are all very beautiful by the way

No worries, I've been wrong before too and thank you very much on the compliment. They are about to turn 2 months and are losing their baby feathers. And they're bantams.

 

[Frazzemrat1]

At 8 weeks old they're too young to grow the male saddle feathers, which come in about 12 weeks. Also, for 8 weeks, those are awfully red and big combs and wattles for pullets. I believe those two we can see their heads are cockerels.
Can you get a pic of the one who's hiding its face?

 

[Robert G]

At 8 weeks old they're too young to grow the male saddle feathers, which come in about 12 weeks. Also, for 8 weeks, those are awfully red and big combs and wattles for pullets. I believe those two we can see their heads are cockerels.
Can you get a pic of the one who's hiding its face?

The one hiding looks exactly like the one that is not.

 

[Frazzemrat1]

If that's the case, then I think they're all cockerels.

 

[Robert G]

Here's another picture.

 

[Allie Grace Sanders]

Yup, bunch of cockerels!

 

[sourland]

Both are cockerels. Mother is a very nice looking bird.

 

[Robert G]

If that's the case, then I think they're all cockerels.

That's my thought as well. It' just that their color looks more like a hen I used to have.