Help with gender, please!

[Melissa F]

I need help with my barnyard mixes, please! They are 2 months old and primarily a Cochin and brahma mix.
Buff #1

Buff #2 and #3

Buff #4

White #1

White #2

Thanks!

 

[Melissa F]

Oh, and if anyone has any advice about the white leghorn mixes in the third photo I would appreciate it! I have 4 leghorns and one is clearly a rooster, but the other three have much lighter and someone smaller combs.

 

[Melissa F]

Anyone?

 

[donrae]

I need help with my barnyard mixes, please! They are 2 months old and primarily a Cochin and brahma mix.
Buff #1
Lots of red, likely a cockerel.


Buff #2 and #3
bird in foreground looks like a cockerel, can't see the back one enough, but may be pullet.

Buff #4
cockerel

White #1

cockerel

White #2
cockerel

Thanks!

How old are the white birds? The don't look like Leghorns, more like Rocks. But knowing age will help sex them.

 

[Melissa F]

They were all hatched July 4, so 9 weeks yesterday.
I got the eggs from a friend, and those all white chickens were hatched from white eggs, so I assumed leghorns. This is the possible parentage of ALL the birds in the pics:
a blue standard Cochin roo
a buff brahma roo
Hens are EE, leghorn, rir, buff Orpington, marans, buff brahma, light brahma

 

[enola]

I see several cockerels also. This must be the year of the rooster! I hatched about 70% roosters this season

I start butchering this weekend.........

 

[donrae]

At only 9 weeks, the two white birds I can see are cockerels.

If the roosters are not Leghorn, the babies can't be Leghorns, just mixed breed. The dominant white of the Leghorn momma can cover a lot of colors. You should be able to tell which bird was the father (if it really matters) by the comb. The Brahma's offspring will have a pea or modified pea comb, the cochin's will have straight combs.


enola--I'm right there with you

on the Year of the Cockerel. Mine aren't quite ready to butcher cause I didn't start hatching til later, but they're learning to crow now--hilarious!

 

[Wyandottes7]

First bird may be a rooster. The two white chickens in Photo 3 are cockerels, as is Buff #4 and White #1 and #2.

 

[Melissa F]

I have hatched So. Many. Roos. this summer! I'm starting to question if my hatching practices favor Roos. My Rhode Island reds are the only breed I hatched out 50/50.

 

[enola]

When mine start crowing they get butchered on my next day off. I don't like them chasing the girls either.