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This thread might be helpful: https://www.backyardchickens.com/th...d-live-out-a-normal-full-length-life.1235154/I went to tractor supply in April to buy 3 Buff Orpington chicks but they said you had to buy them in fours so I said okay and got four. Well the girl put 4 in a box and I brought them home and from that day two looked alike and the other two looked the same. And come to find out now or even sooner two were buff Orpingtons like they were suppose to be and two were the cornish x. I thought all along they were all 4 still females but my husband kept telling me that he thought that one of the cornish x if not both of them were male. I'm really kinda at a loss on what to do with the cornish x cause I just don't think I can bring myself to process them for meat although they are 8 weeks old and a good healthy size. But they were bought as my babies and not for meat. One of them still gets up and will scratch the yard with the orpington but the other I'm afraid is fading fast, it just sits all day and only moves to get to food and water. I'm not really sure what my best options is for them.