Golden comets

[Ed 209]

Got these chicks from tractor supply, are they pulkets? They are suppose to be girls but I'm having doubts. Thanks in advance, and the are a week and a half old.

 

[azygous]

Your chicks are, at most, just a week old. There's no way to tell the sex until, at the very earliest, four weeks when the males' combs will appear a little more obvious than the females and the males will be a more yellow tint than the colorless pinkish tint of the females who won't have any obvious combs quite yet.

In another week, if you have males, the combs will be picking up more orange. From there, they will have mostly red combs at six weeks and you can be sure they're males. Some cockerels may even belt out a squeaky crow around six weeks.

 

[Crazy for Chickens!]

Your Red Sex Links (golden comets) are all pullets, as they are a sex-linked breed, and you can tell from the coloring at hatch. For the Barred Rocks, post pics of their combs at 6 weeks.

 

[Ed 209]

Your chicks are, at most, just a week old. There's no way to tell the sex until, at the very earliest, four weeks when the males' combs will appear a little more obvious than the females and the males will be a more yellow tint than the colorless pinkish tint of the females who won't have any obvious combs quite yet.

In another week, if you have males, the combs will be picking up more orange. From there, they will have mostly red combs at six weeks and you can be sure they're males. Some cockerels may even belt out a squeaky crow around six weeks.

I've had the chicks over a week and a half.

 

[Ed 209]

Your Red Sex Links (golden comets) are all pullets, as they are a sex-linked breed, and you can tell from the coloring at hatch. For the Barred Rocks, post pics of their combs at 6 weeks.

The black ones are french copper marans

 

[Frazzemrat1]

The black ones are french copper marans

Agree with @Crazy for Chickens! on your sex links... As for the dark ones, I don't think they're copper marans. Copper Marans would not have that white head spot, which indicates they will be barred. They're either going to be barred rocks or cuckoo marans.

 

[Ed 209]

Agree with @Crazy for Chickens! on your sex links... As for the dark ones, I don't think they're copper marans. Copper Marans would not have that white head spot, which indicates they will be barred. They're either going to be barred rocks or cuckoo marans.

Pullets?

 

[Frazzemrat1]

Pullets?

as they aren't sex links, we won't be able to tell for several weeks. Give it some time and repost for them.

 

[Crazy for Chickens!]

The black ones are french copper marans

Well, i don't think they are. As @Frazzemrat1 mentioned, the head spot indicates the barring gene, and French Black Coppers aren't barred. They are either Barred Rocks or Cuckoo Marans. Posting a pic of the legs would help, as Cuckoo Marans have white legs, and BR's have yellow.

 

[Brahmachicken240]

Your sex links are pullets, your barred rocks/cuckoo marans chicks are too young to tell.