Gender identification. HELP!!!

[tlb625]

Hello everybody, this is my first time on BYC and i have an important question. Well this is my first time raising chicks and they are now only 7 weeks old RIR. Only one has a yellow comb and the others have orange. Do you think the others with orange combs are roosters?

Thank you and i will post pictures.

 

[Ol Grey Mare]

Hi and welcome!
Hopefully you are able to get the pictures taken and posted soon as that will be the best tool to help answer your question. Based solely on your description I really have no guess as orange/yellow isn't so much the issue is as is a comb or wattles that start to turn pink/red early and show more growth - and even that isn't a sure thing.

 

[tlb625]

chick 1






chick 1

chick 2

chick 2 chick 3

chick 3


chick 4

chick 5 chick 5

Let me know what is pullet and what is rooster.

 

[tlb625]

So if they have orange / redish comes they may be a boy?

 

[newmarch2014]

Mine are exactly the same age and also production reds and this is the one I think is a rooster in the front and the one behind is what both of the other 2 look like and here is another one of him

, see his wattles are developing much more and are redder. I am not 100% sure he is a rooster (wont know till he crows or lays an egg they tell me) but ''he'' has much more stout legs than his 2 flockmates and got his tail feathers later than they did also by about a week.Here is one of the ones I think is a pullet compared there is hardly any wattle development. It is really still too early for either of us to be sure but thought I could give you something to compare to since we both have the same type and age.

 

[tlb625]

Do you think because they have a red wattle they are immediately boys or could be girls? do you think its a possible chance that a pullet can develop quicker? which one of mine do you think could be a girl or boy?

 

[newmarch2014]

If I were to play the guessing game (which I am not proven at yet at all) I would think that chick 3 may be a candidate for a roo. The story from most is that roos are more likely to develop their wattles and combs in a deeper pink color earlier than the hens but that it very well can just be a quickly developing hen also. That is the reason they say you won't know till it crows or lays an egg really.