How many hens do you see out of these fifteen chicks?

[BesideStillWaters]

I hatched these guys out for the Easter hatch-along (first hatched Good Friday and the last hatched about a week and a half later), and I want to verify how many roosters and hens are here. Here are photos of each one:

#1: Gazette. She is a mix of my Golden Lace Wyandotte, and my white sex link rooster. The Silver Laced Wyandotte from the rooster really showed up here. I was hoping for a chick that would be black and white and red all over. (That's why I named her Gazette before she even hatched. Because what is black and white and read all over? A newspaper. ) But the little bit of red fluff she had disappeared when she feathered out. This one I really REALLY hope is a girl, I am so attached to her.

#2: Kung Roo.

#3: Hope

#4: Faith

#5: Pipsqueak (I didn't realize until I looked through the photos on the computer that she blinked. ) This is another that I am very attached to and hope is a girl.

#6: GoldieFeathers the Second

#7: Candy

#8: Cadbury Creme

#9: Caramel

#11: Russel Stover

#12: Reeses Pieces

#13: Ester Sue

#14: Butterscotch.

#15: Mo. (He was the last hatched. I started calling him "Last of the Mohicans" and it stuck. )


I'm seeing seven hens, nine roosters with 1, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, and 13 being the hens. Do you think this is correct?

 

[TheOddOneOut]

Gazzette, Pipsqueak, Goldie, Candy, Cadbury Creme, and probably Ester Sue are female.

 

[TheOddOneOut]

All others are males.

 

[BesideStillWaters]

All others are males.

After going back over my photos, I realize I mixed up two photos and I have another that looks exactly like Candy and Cadbury. Looks like I posted Russel Stover twice. I thought that was weird that I had an extra roo because I didn't think I used the name Reeses Pieces yet. (Shouldn't have posted in the middle of the night I guess. ) So I guess I have 7 hens 8 roos. Not too bad! Thanks!

 

[Painted Calls]

Gazzette, Pipsqueak, Goldie, Candy, Cadbury Creme, and probably Ester Sue are female.

All others are males.

Agreed.

 

[BesideStillWaters]

Agreed.

Thanks!

 

[BesideStillWaters]

The hen I missed in the post, Cathy:

 

[TheOddOneOut]

The hen I missed in the post, Cathy:

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Also female. Pure RIR?

 

[BesideStillWaters]

Also female. Pure RIR?

I hope so. Does she look like it to you? That was the goal, but another rooster may have interfered. Three look identical, and so far, everything looks right for those.

I started a thread about the father, right before I started this thread about the chicks. I have a photo of the parents there: https://www.backyardchickens.com/th...ster-create-a-sex-link.1478102/#post-24627767 I started it because I got some chick coloring on a few that I didn't expect. (Red roosters with a rose comb and gold females instead of red.) Looks like some are pure RIR (like Cathy), and a few, another rooster (a sex link I raised last year) interfered and created some mixes I didn't expect.

 

[TheOddOneOut]

I would say Candy, Cathy, Cadbury Creme, Kung Roo, Reeces Pieces, Russel Stover and Mo are all pure RIR.