Gender Identification Help Requested

The NH are very outgoing and want to get to know me, but they are also active and definitely need the room of the "in-between" coop they were transferred to today.

They really are pretty. It will be interesting for you to watch her grow and see what you have.
I've enjoyed watching her change for sure. She's very inquisitive, and she's one of the first to run up to see what I might have when I walk in the run or coop. Just this week, she's gotten to where if I kneel down, like to replace bedding in the nest boxes, she'll hop up on my knee and settle there like she wants to take a nap. This isn't a great picture of her because she was very interested in noises outside of the run and refused to look my way.
 

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I've enjoyed watching her change for sure. She's very inquisitive, and she's one of the first to run up to see what I might have when I walk in the run or coop. Just this week, she's gotten to where if I kneel down, like to replace bedding in the nest boxes, she'll hop up on my knee and settle there like she wants to take a nap. This isn't a great picture of her because she was very interested in noises outside of the run and refused to look my way.
What a pretty girl! She does look like my NH's.

I only know enough to know I don't know anything, so I'm not sure what other breeds might look like that.
 
I've enjoyed watching her change for sure. She's very inquisitive, and she's one of the first to run up to see what I might have when I walk in the run or coop. Just this week, she's gotten to where if I kneel down, like to replace bedding in the nest boxes, she'll hop up on my knee and settle there like she wants to take a nap. This isn't a great picture of her because she was very interested in noises outside of the run and refused to look my way.
If she has a single comb, she is likely a NH or a rir. RIR are darker though. If she has a pea comb, should be a buckeye. Amber from Meyer Hatchery told me that the free chicks, especially the free cockerels, are often Rhode Island reds, just wanted to throw that out there.
 
If she has a single comb, she is likely a NH or a rir. RIR are darker though. If she has a pea comb, should be a buckeye. Amber from Meyer Hatchery told me that the free chicks, especially the free cockerels, are often Rhode Island reds, just wanted to throw that out there.
She's got a single comb. I thought she was a buckeye at first. Her coloring looked exactly like those chicks in their pictures, and her comb was so tiny I couldn't tell. But after it started to grow in the first week, I knew she was not a buckeye, lol. I'm really leaning towards NH.

Yeah, my free cockerel is a RIR. He bites. He's a beautiful little guy though. His name is Soup. But I won't keep him. I also won't add the Homestead Helper chick to my future orders.
 
She's got a single comb. I thought she was a buckeye at first. Her coloring looked exactly like those chicks in their pictures, and her comb was so tiny I couldn't tell. But after it started to grow in the first week, I knew she was not a buckeye, lol. I'm really leaning towards NH.

Yeah, my free cockerel is a RIR. He bites. He's a beautiful little guy though. His name is Soup. But I won't keep him. I also won't add the Homestead Helper chick to my future orders.
Rir cockerels tend to be a bit feisty, as I've heard, lol. I also have a meal maker and a homestead helper on my order, praying for anything but a Rhode Island red since I already have a pullet and don't want an aggressive roo :fl
 
Rir cockerels tend to be a bit feisty, as I've heard, lol. I also have a meal maker and a homestead helper on my order, praying for anything but a Rhode Island red since I already have a pullet and don't want an aggressive roo :fl
I'll keep my fingers crossed for you! But man, was he a cute little thing when they got here! Just look at the poof.😍
 

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