Help!!! Rooster or pullet!!

[pfields]

It's 10 weeks old. Thanks for the reply.

 

[pfields]

It's 10 weeks old.

 

[JasperMosby]

Then I'd say is safe to assume it's a female but it looks like a black sex link or something similar.

 

[pfields]

Out of the six black chicks that were suppose to be barred rock from the feed store in Bay City, Texas, only one is barred rock, three are Black Australorp (one of which is a rooster, not a hen) and two changed like the picture from solid black to gold and black.

 

[JasperMosby]

Feed stores often sort them incorrectly. Black sex links are a common bird to get at feed stores because they're decent layers and they can be sexed by their color too so look them up because I think that's a likely possibility.

 

[JasperMosby]

I have two black sex links. They're sweet birds and they lay nicely so even though they weren't barred rocks, not all is lost.

 

[Ol Grey Mare]

Feed stores often sort them incorrectly. Black sex links are a common bird to get at feed stores because they're decent layers and they can be sexed by their color too so look them up because I think that's a likely possibility.

Yep, a lot of chicks look very similar and most hatcheries do not label the compartments within the shipping boxes as to what breed is in which box/section. It can be all too easy to get the wrong chick in the wrong bin, especially in a store with open access to the chick bins where people pick up a chick in bin A and put it back in bin B which happens to have a similar looking breed in there.

 

[pfields]

I read somewhere on BYC that Australorps have white feet. Mine have white feet and under the breast have white tips on their feathers. I though maybe they were slowly turning BR but no, solid black with green shine in sun and some white tip feathers under the breast and between legs with white feet. As long as they lay it's okay whatever they are but I really wanted BR. The same feed store now has RIR. That's what I had wanted all along or Production Red. Had those before and so sweet and good layers.

 

[pfields]

This is off topic but my coop was getting way too hot inside in south central Texas. I put a box fan in the window and that helped some but this past weekend we put some heat barrier sheets under the green corrugated fiberglass panels of the roof and what a difference it made. I have a thermometer in the coop and it dropped six degrees in minutes. It will also soften the sound of rain. My chicks have only heard rain once in their short 10 week life.

 

[GrahamGrant]

Alright so, I believe that I have a rooster but an not 100% sure. But I still call him Harold.