How to tell a roo from a hen in buff orphingtons?

[cgjsmith]

Please forgive my misspellings i have four buff orphingtons. They are around 10 or 11 weeks. fully featherd but a bit on the small side. Of the three I could catch all had red things growing on their chins. I thought that was a sign of a roo? But surly my luck wouldn't be so bad as to get 3 roosters out of the four chicks we picked out!! LOL Crystal

 

[speckledhen]

No, all chickens have wattles. Roosters just have much larger ones and they usually turn very red by now. Larger comb as well.

 

[SkeeredChicken]

A few things I've observed early on: First thing is, Roos combs and wattles grow much bigger, faster. As far as I have see with Hens/pullets, they are slightly lighter in color. I also kind of think of the femmes as wearing kind of an old fashioned dress. The ones where the butts of their dress stick up, maybe because of all the padding.

 

[cgjsmith]

a bussel you mean. ok I et a picture I think I'll take pictures tomorrow and get ya'll opinion. Crystal

 

[CarriBrown]

Quote:

DH and I call it a pedi coat!

 

[cgjsmith]

My husband (and i in another life time) is a civil war reenactor (no were not redneck, racist or part of the KKK

So I know alot about peticoats LOL I didn't get the pictures taken , for some reason my husband thought the house needed cleaning. no idea why. LOL Crystal.