Our best guesses... what's yours??

[Jx2inNC]

Here are a few pics of our chicks, somewhere in the 4 week old range right now. We have speculations as to what gender they are, but thought I would get feedback from everyone on here!



RIR & EE got bigger a lot faster than the rest, so we thought they were roosters, but now are showing characteristics of pullets:

silkies: probably still too soon to tell but thought i'd give it a shot!

speckled sussex (rooster):

black cochin:

Dominique (believe he is a rooster, but comb is not turning red like the others yet):

Black Japanese bantam I believe... (rooster?

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Thanks guys!
-Julie

 

[LindsayB]

EE, sussex, Barred rock, and japanese are your roosters. The dominique is really a barred rock, doms dont have single combs. I have no idea on the silkies, they are so hard to tell!

 

[Mrs. Fluffy Puffy]

All pullets except the chick in pic number: 4, 5, 6, and 7. That one is a rooster. Silkies? No idea, too young to tell yet.
Black cochin is a hen. The SS is a rooster. The BR is a roo. Black jap is a roo.

 

[sydney13]

the head feathers on the silkie look a little like a roo because they are growing upwards but i could be wrong

 

[Jx2inNC]

The Barred Rock makes sense. I went with what the lady who hatches them said...and haven't rethought it since they are still relatively small. Single comb should be a dead giveaway though, although the feathers appear much more like a BR as well, now that I look at it.

I'm supposing the white EE is getting pointed out because it looks like a rose comb in the works.
I can't say it appears to be a certainty, but it would make more sense to me than a hen right now.

The Silkies I haven't even tried to consider much.
What age should they for sure show signs of gender?
The upright puff of hair is suspicious though...

 

[Happy Chooks]

Pullet
Rooster
Too early yet on the silkies
Rooster
Pullet
Rooster
Rooster

 

[Jx2inNC]

Is the EE without a doubt, convincingly a cockerel?
It looks an awful lot like the other EE, to be honest.
I'm wanting to make sure I draw clear distinctions between some of these combs and chickens for the future.

 

[Happy Chooks]

Quote:
I have no doubts, #2 is a boy.

 

[Jx2inNC]

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I have no doubts, #2 is a boy.

Then I bet our other EE is as well.
It isn't as big, but it has the same looking comb growth, what there is of it, as well, more or less.

 

[ChickGirl6]

That EE looks like a pullet to me. I have 24 EEs and all my roos had much more red in there combs, See

This roo is about 4 or 5 weeks in this pic