They both are not pure bred. I believe the one is barred rock mix and the other BO mix. You'll have to wait to find out the sex. Crosses are difficult to sex early.
I think they both look like cockerals. At 11 weeks none of my pullets have that much red or wattles showing. The buff isn't buff or an orpington, maybe a new hampshire? The barred bird is possibly a black sex link, but I vote cockeral for both. Post pics again in a few weeks.
The BO looks like a hatchery New Hampshire Red - pullet The BR is a Barred Rock - just a bad quality one - and is also a pullet. The commercial strains have wonky barring. Nothing compared to a heritage barred rock!
My barred rocks are the same age in this picture. The boys have huge combs/wattles.
I had ordered the assorted brown egg layer package on efowl so that probably accounts for my sort of but not really Buff Orp and Barred Rock chickens :<
Thanks for all your input so far! I'm gonna keep my fingers crossed and hope they're both pullets as I heard cockerels would have started crowing by now. I'll update again in like a month or so regarding these two
Well unfortunately the barred rock suspect really does seem to be a rooster.. as evidenced by these pictures over 4 weeks later
in comparison to the other br chicken
look at that tail!
here's to hoping these chickens are hens, i'm a little worried given how big their combs and wattles are, though definitely not as big or red as the boy up there