My babies at 5 weeks

[Nugget]

I'd like to know if you all are thinking what I'm thinking! Boy, girl or ?

I've had several people tell me the gender of Ros and Ruby already, but I'll include those pictures too, because pictures are always fun to post )

A) Tulip, silver laced wyandotte at 5 weeks

B) Noodle, silver laced wyandotte at 5 weeks

C) Gumbo, silver laced wyandotte, 5 weeks

D) Opus, barred rock, 5 weeks

E) Molasses, gold laced wyandotte, 5 weeks

F) Ruby, Don't really know what he is! 5 weeks

G) Ros, gold laced wyandotte at 9 weeks

Ros has been mounting the other chicks... is this behaviour definitive, or are they like dogs in this respect (female dogs will mount too)

 

[howlingwoodsfarm]

I would say
a) roo(?)
b)roo(?)
c)roo(?)
D)pullet(fairly confident)
E)pullet(fairly confident)
F)Roo(fairly confident)
G)roo(fairly confident)

Boy i hope I am wrong.. that would be alot of roos, if they came supposedly sexed I would say I would have to be wrong on a few but if you ordered st. run I would not be surprised if you had atleast 3 roos. I have never had a female mount another flockmate. Lets see what other say.

Heather

 

[hinkjc]

I agree with Heather. First 3 look like boys and the last 2.

Jody

 

[justusnak]

Darn, I would have to agree......wow, thats a LOT of roos!!

 

[Nugget]

I was hoping someone would tell me I was wrong (I was thinking the same thing)... What am I going to do with them all! They were straight run... but even so, I had hoped for a 50/50 ratio

 

[Matt Berry]

You have a lot of roos there. I looked at all the pictures and the only pullet I saw was D. Opus. While I'm not 100% sure Molasses is a roo, they are still young yet and at that age is showing more Roo characteristics then I'd expect to see.

 

[speckledhen]

Opus does not look like a Barred Rock to me. I don't see any apparent barring, but maybe the pic is too close to the head for me to tell. Does she have any? If not, you have something else.

 

[Nugget]

Opus had white on her belly as a baby, she's now almost all black. No barring at all, aside from the little bit of white near her eye... Maybe he sold me a crow. There were some australorps at the farm, could she be one of those?

 

[Nugget]

Here's a full shot of Opus yesterday:

Any idea what she is?

 

[speckledhen]

Australorp, probably. Certainly not a Barred Rock.