giant cochin "pullets" from Welp, NEW PICS 5 WKS

[farmerChef]

Where's Illia when you need her?

I'm hoping they're all pullets, cuz thats what I paid for!

 

[bburn]

Seriously....good luck figuring it out.

I have a Barred Roo that NO ONE could sex....except the BO roo when he beat him up. He was way over six months. He never did have much of a comb or wattles. Now he does but he is almost a year old.

They just mature much slower. BUT what great chickens they are!

Good luck....I am watching to see the answers you get because I just hatched out six.

 

[Ladybird CA]

I think they're all pullets.

 

[abundantwife]

I think they're all girls. My Cochin roo had a MUCH larger comb and even some wattles at that age. All of my cochins have had a more pronounced comb as chicks than my other breeds. Good luck

 

[jywel417]

no one is really screaming rooster yet . . . .

 

[farmerChef]

I'm mostly worried about the little barred one, it's wattles are so red. And that the 2 (chipmunk) partridge chicks are feathering out a differently.

I still don't know what color the black and the burgundy chicks are feathering out to be, more partridge? or poorly gold laced?

I'll take some more pics today or tomorrow, they're a week older now. Maybe it will help some.

 

[farmerChef]

WEEK 5 PICS!!!!!!!!
#1

#2

#3

#4, you can kind of see it's odd comb

#5

 

[rtroxel]

I'd give up hope on #2 and 3. Sorry

Maybe you could lucky on the rest of them but I think I'll spend my money myself instead of betting it....

 

[NanaKat]

I'm going to suggest they are all hens. The combs are not huge nor are the wattles.
Hormones can make the wattle comb redden up.
These are big cochins and they do take longer to develop and may even lay later...don't give up on them yet.

 

[mjgigax]

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I think so too.
In my 6 that hatched in Feb. two were ovbiously roos very early, anouther showed up 3 weeks later and one is still up for debate.