Hens or a Roo ???

[awillard]

Our babies are now 7 weeks old. We have 5 Rhode Island Reds and 1 silver laced wyandotte (black one). We are trying to guess how many hens and how many roosters we might have. I think our luck is turning out to be only one hen out of them all. I have a few pictures but will get better ones later today of them.

 

[cafarmgirl]

All looking pretty girly to me at this point. I am not as familiar with SLW's but my RIR roo's are always pretty obvious by the time they are 4 or 5 weeks old with a much larger and pinker comb then the girls.

 

[awillard]

I am hoping they are all hen's I am okay with a couple rooster's as well. Looking at everyone's pictures on other post about the waddles and everything. We are not seeing them on any of them at this stage. They turned 7 weeks old yesterday (Friday).

 

[donrae]

Were they sexed pullets? I'm not seeing anything screaming rooster at this point, and reds usually aren't shy about announcing their manliness pretty early.

 

[Wyandottes7]

None of them really look like roosters to me.

 

[awillard]

They were all sexed as pullets but they also told me when we got them at the local feed store that we could end up with a rooster or two. But looking at them they all have started the cones but nothing else.

 

[awillard]

On another note I have three of the reds that are darker than the other two reds. Does that mean anything?

 

[donrae]

On another note I have three of the reds that are darker than the other two reds. Does that mean anything?

Nope. That's very common with hatchery birds. Enjoy your girls!

 

[roostersandhens]

No reason for me to think they aren't hens. It still may be slightly too soon to tell, but they look like girls!