Help! Please! 6wk old hatchery chicks.

[Chickie-lu-22]

On May 31st, picked up our 7 ordered female chicks from Meyer Hatchery. Today, they are 6 weeks old. Unfortunately, I believe we have a rooster or 2 or 3 in the bunch of 7!!!!!! That is NOT good odds! Because I'm crazy and have never owned chicks before, I ordered 7 different breeds. So, I hope y'all can help a new chick owner out. I am not confused about breeds, sex only.

The breeds include -

Salmon Faverolle - Honey
Buckeye - Aubrey
Columbian Wyandotte - Gracie
Easter Egger - Esther
Green Queen (EE) - Jules
Black Australorp - Emmy
Welsummer - Summer

I believe the first four are pullets, but am definitely NOT sure about the Green Queen or Black Australorp. Totally think Welsummer is a rooster!! Aren't they supposed to be autosexed by color when born? I'll post a baby chick pic to show coloring.

Anyway, had not intended to have a rooster, but certainly NOT 3!!!

Please help .

Hopefully my posted pics will be helpful. I will mostly be posting pics of the 3 chicks in question. Please request anything else needed to better identify sex.

The Australorp is always up front and greeting us. Very curious. The Welsummer hides behind everyone, but is a little pecky. The Green Queen is just crazy and runs in circles or is going back and forth between groups to figure out where it belongs! Hope this helps too

Thank you all for your help.

Just for fun, here's a few more of everyone.

Sorry for pic overload and the emojis!!!

 

[BlindLemonChicken]

The only potential cockerel I see is the Welsummer but I'm no expert. Also its pretty early. The Australorp looks like a pullet to me and I do have some experience with them but like I said its early so dont panic just yet

 

[SandyRiverChick]

x2... I only see one that look's cockeralish.... the Welsummer. It's so early, I know how hard waiting is but give it a few weeks. Don't over analyze behavior just focus on those combs/wattles turning red. Feathers are to hard to judge until later and so is the thick leg thing, I've had some ladies with gigantic cankels!!

 

[boatagor]

Black feathers can have a green shimmer on males or females, in any breed.

Yes, I did want to say that I have several black pullets and a grown Australorp hen who have the green shimmer.

 

[Mamagirl3]

Yup, definitely see the difference. I was thinking the same thing about the color of the chest and I think I even see a little green shimmer on some of the darker tail feathers. The female doesn't get that green shimmer, I think. It's funny though, he hides behind everyone else when we come along, but pecks at the rest of the girls when we turn our backs.

We have black jersey giants, the girls have so much green sheen a friend walked and asked when we got ducks? Then realized it was a chicken. What's pretty is their black feathers on their backs are also shiny then the green sheen. For a totally black chix.. they are pretty!

 

[boatagor]

We named my friend's cockerel Cornelius. It's the name of the corn flakes mascot, who was a welsummer.

Of course, my son got to name OUR cockerel and so we have the lavender orpington Captain Floofypants

 

[SmiYa0126]

x2... I only see one that look's cockeralish.... the Welsummer. It's so early, I know how hard waiting is but give it a few weeks. Don't over analyze behavior just focus on those combs/wattles turning red. Feathers are to hard to judge until later and so is the thick leg thing, I've had some ladies with gigantic cankels!!

Cankles

 

[TillyPeeps]

x2... I only see one that look's cockeralish.... the Welsummer. It's so early, I know how hard waiting is but give it a few weeks. Don't over analyze behavior just focus on those combs/wattles turning red. Feathers are to hard to judge until later and so is the thick leg thing, I've had some ladies with gigantic cankels!!

Agree, only the Welsummer looks like a boy, although it's too early to be sure about the gender. No, Welsummer is not autosexing, but Welbar (Welsummer with barring) is. Welsummer doesn't have the barring, so you cannot tell the gender by head dot. My Welbar girls didn't have the white dot when they were babies, while the male Welbars usually don't have clear chipmunk stripes and all have white dots on their heads.

 

[BlindLemonChicken]

x2... I only see one that look's cockeralish.... the Welsummer. It's so early, I know how hard waiting is but give it a few weeks. Don't over analyze behavior just focus on those combs/wattles turning red. Feathers are to hard to judge until later and so is the thick leg thing, I've had some ladies with gigantic cankels!!

Cankels

 

[izzyduck]

if your looking to rehome one i would live a rooster for my girls im in Mt.Pleasant.