I am assuming this is a rooster?

[babychirpchirp]

Just wanted to get some feedback. I have 6 birds from TSC that we have had for almost 12 weeks. We got 3 ISA Browns and 3 Golden Comets. This is the only one that has the big comb so I guess we have a boy right? They were all supposed to be female but I know how that goes. I am super new to this and trying to learn so this may be a dumb questions. Any thoughts? Thanks

 

[A.M. Eggs]

Yes that is a beautiful boy! The practice of venting chicks has a 90% chance of being correct. Sometimes you just don't know what you'll get until you got it _/('~')\_.

 

[babychirpchirp]

Would you suggest finding him a home or will he be ok to keep with the girls? We live in a rural area with no restrictions on roosters. Thank you so much for the response by the way!

 

[A.M. Eggs]

The standard sized rooster to chicken ratio is 10 to 12 hens - 1 rooster. If you get more hens he could stay with you happily

 

[JedJackson]

How odd. Both Comets and ISAs are sex links and should be easy to tell apart by hatcheries as baby chicks. He does seem very off in color for a cockerel of either of those varieties, so maybe that is how he passed for a pullet. Or else something like a Dixie rainbow accidentally got into the wrong bin at TSC. He's pretty cool looking.

 

[babychirpchirp]

Thank you both so much!

 

[debid]

View attachment 1397490 Just wanted to get some feedback. I have 6 birds from TSC that we have had for almost 12 weeks. We got 3 ISA Browns and 3 Golden Comets. This is the only one that has the big comb so I guess we have a boy right? They were all supposed to be female but I know how that goes. I am super new to this and trying to learn so this may be a dumb questions. Any thoughts? Thanks

Did you get them from someone who claimed to have gotten them at TSC or ??? I have NEVER seen a whoops sexlink from a hatchery. Ever. The males are supposed to be silver (white) with red/gold sexlinks and ISAs and Golden Comets are both sexlinks. When you see something like this, it's been produced by someone who bought sexlinks and then bred them to each other which results in both males and females of assorted red and or silver coloring.

 

[Crazy for Chickens!]

Did you get them from someone who claimed to have gotten them at TSC or ??? I have NEVER seen a whoops sexlink from a hatchery. Ever. The males are supposed to be silver (white) with red/gold sexlinks and ISAs and Golden Comets are both sexlinks. When you see something like this, it's been produced by someone who bought sexlinks and then bred them to each other which results in both males and females of assorted red and or silver coloring.

X2

 

[drumstick diva]

x3

 

[babychirpchirp]

Wow, x 3. No, our 10 year old daughter picked them out at TSC and the super nice older gentleman put them in the box for us. You all have so much knowledge so I feel really stupid but I want to get there. I just have seen where the TSC things are sometime a dice roll. To my untrained eye when they were so little they all looked exactly the same. Sorry for the novice questions and experience. We all have to start somewhere. Thanks to you all, we will get there.