Guys or girls?

[hdowden]

i still think moose is a cockerel if both were leghorns then their combs and wattles would roughly be about the same size and not one bigger than the other nor redder than the other.

 

[sfw2]

Moose's comb and wattles don't look unusually big/red for a sixteen week old Leghorn pullet. They all look like pullets, to me.

Nice mixed flock!

 

[Beckyhsinglsc]

Moose's comb and wattles don't look unusually big/red for a sixteen week old Leghorn pullet. They all look like pullets, to me.

Nice mixed flock!

i still think moose is a cockerel if both were leghorns then their combs and wattles would roughly be about the same size and not one bigger than the other nor redder than the other.

I think if Moose were a cockerel his comb would be much bigger. I had two leghorn pullets with different size combs until right before they laid eggs then the one caught up to the other.

 

[hdowden]

they might not be leghorns they could be white rocks or some other white breed. it's comb is a lot bigger than the rest of the chickens in the pics and more red than the rest of the chickens. i kinda doubt they are leghorns they lack the white earlobs (which could happen on hatchery stock but even so, on leghorns i have seen that very very rarly) i'm thinking more of white rocks

 

[FuzzyButtsFarm]

My leghorns started laying at 17 wks and the combs were alot biger and redder at that age. Got them from TSC.

 

[bemba]

I would be 99.9% sure all hens, the one with the larger/redder comb is very femine looking..... even though the same age some grow at different rates, some have smaller combs, some bigger etc.

 

[johnsc22]

we bought Moose and Marshmallow assuming that they're white leghorns. Maybe it doesn't show clearly in the photos but Moose is the bigger of the 2 but has the less developed wattle and comb. He/she is also the most aggressive of the flock but I assumed that was just an assertion of the pecking order rather than because she's actually a roo! Marshmallow's wattle has just developed that dark red color and she had the biggest comb of the flock right from the time we bought them at 8 weeks.
They were too busy eating to get any better photos of them this evening but if this debate is still raging tomorrow I'll post some more. (I think they do have the white earlobes too).

 

[hdowden]

post pics when they turn 20 weeks please. one way you could try and determine the gender before crow or lay for the white ones is taking a few hackles and seeing if they are pointed or rounded, if hard to see use a colored cloth, pointed would mean cockerel and rounded would me pullet. this might not work till they are 20+ weeks though

from those pics i cant really tell if the earlobes are white or not

 

[NajmoNests]

Look like all ladies to me.

 

[Laingcroft]

yup - agree with others, all hens.

1 EE with blue wheaten ameraucana blood
1 "Golden Comet" as TSC identifies the red sex link
2 white leghorns - rocks have heavier, more rounded bodies