Help me sex my little chooks!

hopsandbabs

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May 3, 2016
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So my family got a group of six chicks. Unfortunately we feel like we lost some kind of game because we feel like we got all roosters! They are very people friendly but they tend to chase squirrels, birds, and my ducks. They are afraid of are four old chickens, and don't attack them.
Their neck feathers tend to puff up when they play rougher with each other but I know that could be them figuring out their pecking order.

Anyways here are some photos!
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Then I'd say they are probably pullets. Pullets start to grow their combs and wattles, and start to redden up from 12 weeks old as they get ready to start laying eggs. If any of them were quite developed in the comb and wattles much earlier than that age (like dangling, red wattles at 6 weeks) that points to a cockerel. If their growth in those areas is pretty recent they are pullets gearing up to give you eggs. They will spar with each other to work out their pecking order.
 
What can be swen says pullets, but a photo of each that shows the whole bird would be nice as it's about more than just comb/wattle in determining gender
 
Then I'd say they are probably pullets. Pullets start to grow their combs and wattles, and start to redden up from 12 weeks old as they get ready to start laying eggs. If any of them were quite developed in the comb and wattles much earlier than that age (like dangling, red wattles at 6 weeks) that points to a cockerel. If their growth in those areas is pretty recent they are pullets gearing up to give you eggs. They will spar with each other to work out their pecking order.
Here are some photos as well
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Even the first puffed up orpington? She worries me because she fluffs up like a rooster...and she's one of my favorites.
I have a dominant hen who does the same thing. She might end up being the dominant. When my RIR fluffs up, her neck feathers go like that, and she's a hen for sure! They look like ladies to me too, by the way!
 

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