Gender?

Dang, I thought the Australorp, the black one, was a pullet.
Are you certain of age? Weeks is better than months in assessing physical characteristics of gender.
At 2 months, a pullet would not have that much size or, more importantly, color to comb and wattle. Male saddle and hackle feathers will not be present at 2 months so pullets and cockerels will both have rounded feathering....there is a juvenile molt around 14 weeks when male feathers emerge
 
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I thought the barred rock was pullet.....
That's a Dominique, as evidenced by rose comb.....rocks are single combed.
Again, age relative to chatacteristics....bird is reported as 2 months old by OP, no pullet will have that much/that bright comb/wattle at 2 months
 
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Are you certain of age? Weeks is better than months in assessing physical characteristics of gender.
At 2 months, a pullet would not have that much size or, more importantly, color to comb and wattle. Male saddle and hackle feathers will not be present at 2 months so pullets and cockerels will both have rounded feathering....there is a juvenile molt around 14 weeks when male feathers emerge
I was rounding sorry, 9 weeks approximately. I don’t know exactly when they were hatched..
 
I was rounding sorry, 9 weeks approximately. I don’t know exactly when they were hatched..
No need to be sorry, I just have learned there can be 3+weeks difference in one person's "2 months" and the next, and weeks can make a difference in what is seen. At 9 weeks that post very much stands true regarding physical development/gender
 

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