Help with breeds and sexing

[bigbillybagel]

So here is a selection of my chooks, I doubt any of them are a particular pure breed.... I was quite interested though in what people thought the 2 chicks could be.
I get thd impression the are young cockerels going on the reaction if the rest of the flock to them - they have always seemed to go at the young cockerels as opposed to the girls.

And I thought I'd share my geese as well, just because they were there

 

[sourland]

Welcome to BYC. The birds in your second and seventh pictures appear to be pullets.

 

[The Happster]

Welcome.
The first chicken is a cockerel. Cream Legbar cross.
The second chicken is a pullet. Cream Legbar cross.
I'd like age and better photos of the third bird. She's a pullet, possibly a Black Sex Link. And the last chicken is a pullet, possibly Australorp/Jersey Giant or some such breed.

 

[bigbillybagel]

Thanks guys!

Yep second and seventh are young pullets, the black one is around 3 months old from memory and the 2 smaller ones 4-5 weeks old. The black 3 month old (Calemero) was ferociously attacked when she was young by another chicks mum but I managed to intervene in time (she nearly lost her wing and had been pecked on her neck savagely). We were not sure she'd survive but she did and as the others tend to be pecking hard at the 2 little ones I tend to let those three out together away from the others during the day prior to releasing the older ones later on (seems to be working).

The cockerel is called Houdini as he disappeared on his first day with us and led me a merry dance through the forest, before deciding he'd had enough and allowed me to catch him.

We have managed to re-home 2 young cockerels so far with good families that were needing guys for their girls which is fab, but as I mentioned I am a little concerned that the 2 new little ones might also be cockerels

 

[The Happster]

The third is only 3 months? Or is that the last one that's 3 months?
I see no male feathering on #3. Do you have any more photos?

 

[bigbillybagel]

The third is only 3 months? Or is that the last one that's 3 months?
I see no male feathering on #3. Do you have any more photos?

Are you going horizontally or vertically when you say third photo? If you mean the black smaller chook 3rd photo vertically then yeah I think from memory she was born 3 months ago (I'll check my calendar because now I have doubts!).

I'll try to take another couple of photos, she's roaming around at the minute so could be anywhere

 

[The Happster]

Lol I meant the brown/black chook with a bit of copper on its neck.
This one. Is this one 3 months? Because the saddling is rounded. I had assumed it was an older bird.

 

[bigbillybagel]

Lol I meant the brown/black chook with a bit of copper on its neck.
This one. Is this one 3 months? Because the saddling is rounded. I had assumed it was an older bird.

Oh no that's Betsy and she's around 18 months old we think. We have two like this, Betsy in the photo and Dog who's crest flops down to one side and is more daft than the others

 

[The Happster]

Right! I thought so.
You have one cockerel.
The Legbar crosses are beautiful.

 

[bigbillybagel]

Thanks! They keep us on our toes. As I mentioned I think the 2 smallest pullets are going to be cockerels but I guess we'll find out soon enough