hens or roosters?

[Diane in Texas]

Thanks lo pro!
I read pBR chicks with mostly white are likely roosters.
That's why I am hoping for expert opinions here! Anyone??

 

[lo pro chicks]

i dont think shes a pure bread pbr.. ill post a pic of mines @ almost 5 weeks old

 

[lo pro chicks]

 

[lo pro chicks]

See how the bars and color are even through out the birds?

 

[lo pro chicks]

My guess if it was a pure bread pbr roo it would have the same color paytern as mine just a shade lighter.

 

[enola]

The one one the right is not a barred rock. I am not sure, but I a leaning toward that one being an EE cockerel. Not sure though I am on my phone....

 

[donrae]

Finally! Apparently I can't upload on my iPad, only a computer. Anyway, the Barred Rock on the right I'm suspecting is a Roo?? Will be 5 weeks old tomorrow. Thanks!!

The bird on the right is an Easter egger cockerel.

 

[donrae]

We are new to chickens. From everything I have looked at I am guessing that this is a black sex link Roo? He was supposed to be a pullet!! The first black sex link pullet we had died within hours and my husband went back to TSC to retrieve another black sex link pullet. We know they won't take him back and naturally we don't want anything bad to happen to him. Is there any possible way that he is a pullet??? They had Rhode Island Reds marked as buff orphingtons and red sex links marked as white sex links. I am hope

ful that maybe the he/she could be a different breed?

there's pretty much no way to tell a black sex link male from a pure barred rock pullet. All the "rules" of a pure barred pullet will also apply to a sex link male, as he's not a pure barred bird. So, you'll just have wait things out until the 6ish week mark and see how things look.

 

[Diane in Texas]

Donrae, do you think so? "She" looked just like the other Barred Rock chicks but has so much more white & is big! I suppose time will tell. Thank you!

 

[donrae]

Donrae, do you think so? "She" looked just like the other Barred Rock chicks but has so much more white & is big! I suppose time will tell. Thank you!

Well, if it has tons more white, it could be a pure barred male. You were just talking about black sex link males, which as chicks are virtually identical to pure bred barred Rock females as they both have only one barring gene. A pure bred male has two barring genes, thus more white.