Monster chick = Roo?

[Echolalia]

I bought my girls (?), Ether, Bertha (Welsummers), Buffy & Rosie (Rhode Island Red) a week and a half ago as 3 day old chicks. The feed store said that their chicks had a 96% chance of being hens. At the time they were all, more or less, the same size.

At 12 days old, however, one of the chicks, Rosie, towers over the others. Not only is she taller, she has more feathers and just looks more like a chicken than the others. Could "she" actually be a "he"?

 

[LarryPQ]

It is possible. But too early to tell.

Also, without pictures, we have no way of helping, truly.

 

[Echolalia]

Here you go ... Buffy

Rosie for comparison

Buffy is the one at the very top of the picture

 

[ladybug99]

your welsummers are hens....

 

[pixiedouglas]

feathering slowly is more a sign of a rooster, not feathering quickly, they look pretty young to make any guesses, but I don't really see anything that looks rooish to me

 

[Oregon Blues]

It's possible that your chicks aren't the same age. Feed stores get frequent shipments and it's possible that the larger baby arrived a couple of days earlier and thus was hatched a couple of days earlier.

I'm not seeing anything that shouts "rooster".

 

[silkiechicken]

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Yeah, buffy looks about one week older than the other two. Feed stores often have chicks from day olds till month olds in their bins if they do not sell fast.

 

[desireefawn]

No input here other than MY GOSH they are cute

 

[Echolalia]

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You don't have to twist my arm

- here are some more pics of my little ladies:

A blurry picture of Bertha

One of my son and Buffy. He's such a sweetheart!

 

[TeamChaos]

The look of joy on your son's face is priceless- how wonderful!