Please let it be a she

LuciferRoo

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Backyard mixed about 3 months old.
This one is the friendliest one of 7 chicks.
I hope it's a girl as 4 are 99.9% certain to be boys and I am certain of only 2 to be girls.
To me, this one is a toss up as the comb is not nearly as developed as its brothers but it is also bigger than the comb of the sisters.
The boys also exhibit a fighting stance when I reach my had towards them (then run away quickly). This one likes for me to pick her or him up, although that happened with lot of young cockerels in the past.
 

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It's tough when you have so many males. I had 5 cockerels in a brood of 6 last year which sucks because the 1 pullet lost all her brothers and it was hard on her trying to integrate with the older hens on her own. The next batch was 50% pullets and the 3rd was 66%.
 

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