Help!!

[Roxxi1098]

Hello everyone!
I'm new to the group. I'm also a newbie with my chickens but I love the lil cluckers! So, I purchased 6 laying hens from Tractor Supply on April 8th, 3 white Leghorns and 3 Rhode Island Reds as peeps. Well, I know at least 1 if not all of my Reds are Roos! But I'm holding on to the hope that good ole Chicken Nugget is a hen! It's a sweet bird! I'm also a little concerned about one of my leghorns being a roo as well? Idk if anyone can tell by the pic?

 

[Roxxi1098]

Lesson learned! I'm new to raising chickens, so they said they were all hens, I paid extra like a dummy to get attached to roosters that I have to rehome now Or my husband wants to butcher them and I've already made them pets! I can't eat them! Especially Nugget! My special needs son named him/her Chicken Nugget! That's what poor roosters become though! Nobody wants them? At least not 3-4 in a 6 flock!

 

[Pyxis]

All three RIRs are cockerels.

 

[oldhenlikesdogs]

All your RIR are roosters.

 

[rIrs roost]

I can't see real good but if there is green showing on the rir's tail, it's a roo

 

[rIrs roost]

All cockerels

looking closer I agree with everyone else. Hackle feathers.

 

[keesmom]

Your RIR are all male, and your "Leghorn" isn't a Leghorn (though it looks female). Can you post pictures of those?

 

[Roxxi1098]

Hello everyone!
I'm new to the group. I'm also a newbie with my chickens but I love the lil cluckers! So, I purchased 6 laying hens from Tractor Supply on April 8th, 3 white Leghorns and 3 Rhode Island Reds as peeps. Well, I know at least 1 if not all of my Reds are Roos! But I'm holding on to the hope that good ole Chicken Nugget is a hen! It's a sweet bird! I'm also a little concerned about one of my leghorns being a roo as well? Idk if anyone can tell by the pic?

All cockerels

Well, I guess I won't be looking for brown eggs! And I can expect to keep being attacked by Pecker Head, named because she, now he, pecked everyone, and find the rest of my Reds a good home! I'll have to take a better pic of my leghorn tomorrow. If 4 out of my 6 hens are roosters I'm going to find the person who sexes these for a living and make him a hen lol!! That isn't 10%

 

[oldhenlikesdogs]

From my experiences Tractor supply seems heavy on the roosters, one reason I don't buy their birds.

 

[chickenE]

I think that is the most purple chicken I've ever seen. Those feathers are so pretty!!