I'm guessing 2 weeks is too soon to tell, but any thoughts...

[DaveD]

I ordered girls, but I am not sure about 2 of them. Here are all 6... the 1st 2 are speckled sussex, then 2 EE's then 2 barred rocks
-David

 

[Illia]

Well at first I was going to say 2 weeks usually isn't hard to tell, but it also depends on breeds. . . So far I can't see any signs, if anything they're all girls.

 

[speckledhen]

The Barred Rocks are pullets. You can sex those at hatch. The others are a bit young still.

 

[mamdoe]

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I have a barred rock in question...can you tell me how you can sex them?

 

[adeechickluv]

Yes, I found out my chick was a roo when he was 4 1/2 weeks old. 2 is a lil early.

 

[Cindiloohoo]

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I have a barred rock in question...can you tell me how you can sex them?

Has to do with the white on their head I think at hatch, but how to tell on their feathers is girls have more black. speckledhen is the authority on that, so she will have to correct me if that is wrong..

I think I have it right though.

 

[Lensters]

You can do Barred Rocks at 2 to 3 weeks if there is some of each sex. The white bars on the feathers of cockerels are approximately twice as thick as the ones on the pullets. I'm guessing pullets for those two as the bars seem pretty small.

As for the forehead dot, I'm subscribed to this thread to see speckledhen's answer as I haven't found a correlation between the sex and size or shape of the dot. However, she is a chicken goddess...

I should start proof reading before clicking on the "Submit" button.

 

[write2caroline]

I read somewhere that when the barred's feet have black it is a pullet and if not a roo - I have one of each and it was true of them.
Caroline

 

[speckledhen]

Below is a quote from an old document with the percentages of accuracy sexing BR chicks by three traits, head spot plus down color plus leg color. And here is a link to sexing Dominique chicks complete with great pictures--same rules apply to BRs.

http://www.dominiquechicken.com/Sexing_Dominique_chicks.html

Historical Document
Kansas Agricultural Experiment Station

SEX IDENTIFICATION IN PUREBREDS
BARRED PLYMOUTH ROCKS

It had long been recognized that the size of the light head
spots in Barred Plymouth Rocks varied in the two sexes. The
males tend to have larger headspots and the females to have
darker colored legs. However, this method has not been sufficiently
accurate to be of much commercial value.
Quinn and Knox (1939) attempted to separate the sexes of
Barred Plymouth Rocks by means of the intensity of the black
pigment in the down and legs. In different lots of chicks they
report 83.5, 86.1 and 91.8 percent accuracy.
Jerome (1939) describes a method of sex identification in
Barred Plymouth Rocks based upon the regularity of the outline
of the head spot rather than the size of the spot. Those chicks
having headspots irregular in outline and scattered in appearance
are males while the females tend to have headspots with
more regular outlines. The author claimed an accuracy of 90
percent or better when considering only the headspot and 95
percent if the color of the legs was included in the consideration.
The Canadian Department of Agriculture (Anonymous 1941)
issues an excellently illustrated bulletin describing the method.
It is stated in the bulletin that the method “is widely practiced
in Barred Rock chicks by commercial chick sexers.” Sex identification
is based upon outline of head spot, color of legs and
shade of down color. There are several types of male and female
head spots some of which are shown in Figure 1.​

 

[mamdoe]

So......does any one have a couple of barred rock chicks that wouldn't mind modeling so we can try and do a little sexing?
I only have one barred rock so with nothing to compare to I'm not so sure I would be able to accurately sex him/her.
I'll have to try to get a picture of her spot.