Male or female - 10 week store chick

[Harmony Fowl]

I was helping someone fill a minimum at the store and came home with two chicks that are just slightly older than a batch I already had in the brooder. They are ten, maybe 11 weeks old now. The one appears to be a welsummer pullet, she’s in the second picture. The first chick is making me second guess my original guess of male. It came from the same bin and looked the same, but who really knows? So, what do you think? Boy and girl or girl and girl?

 

[oldhenlikesdogs]

They both look like pullets. Second one is not a welsummer, it has slight leg feathering which means it's a mix, which means the other one more than likely is too.

 

[Harmony Fowl]

They both look like pullets. Second one is not a welsummer, it has slight leg feathering which means it's a mix, which means the other one more than likely is too.

Color me not very surprised.

 

[azygous]

They appear to me both to be pullets. They should be good egg layers. My Welsummers are. But be prepared for them to be very noisily dramatic about the entire egg laying process. They not only announce they've laid an egg, but they announce they intend to lay an egg, and they announce when someone else is in the nest laying an egg. It's a really huge deal to Welsummers, and they really, really get into it.

 

[drumstick diva]

pullets

 

[Harmony Fowl]

They appear to me both to be pullets. They should be good egg layers. My Welsummers are. But be prepared for them to be very noisily dramatic about the entire egg laying process. They not only announce they've laid an egg, but they announce they intend to lay an egg, and they announce when someone else is in the nest laying an egg. It's a really huge deal to Welsummers, and they really, really get into it.

lol I have a couple hens like that already, they’ll fit right in. They’re very docile compared to my homebreds. I like them both very much.

 

[Alexandra33]

Pretty pullets! Agreed, second girl isn't a Welsummer. Not only is her plumage color off, but so is the leg color....and presence of feathering leads me to believe she's a mix.

~Alex

 

[SurferchickinSB]

They both look like pullets. Second one is not a welsummer, it has slight leg feathering which means it's a mix, which means the other one more than likely is too.

Wow, would have never noticed the leg feathering, but the collar feathers remind me of my Black Copper Marans.

 

[SurferchickinSB]

They appear to me both to be pullets. They should be good egg layers. My Welsummers are. But be prepared for them to be very noisily dramatic about the entire egg laying process. They not only announce they've laid an egg, but they announce they intend to lay an egg, and they announce when someone else is in the nest laying an egg. It's a really huge deal to Welsummers, and they really, really get into it.

Good to know and I'll keep that in mind for the future!