Pullets or Roos? UPDATED PICS-Post 25, Pg 3. Pic Heavy

[Jschaaff]

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Thank you

I think most of the babies that you said might be pullets, have pea combs tho, and that is why their combs are so much smaller than the straight, pointy combs on the other chicks. Still, I'm hoping! Again, you've been so helpful, thanks for taking the time!

The chicks are are 1 month, and 2 days today (pics posted today, were taken today). I thought they were four weeks in my original post, but I looked up their hatch date today...so just a little over a month. Okay, so in 2 weeks, we'll try again. Thanks so much for your help. I hope someone can help with the breed of your chickens! The buff colored one especially is so pretty!
Jessa

 

[spikennipper]

Boston looks to be the only obvious pullet to me at this stage, she is very beautiful!

Paris and New York are most def boys!

but I think the others may be too

 

[kheopsis]

your chicks look lovely...

 

[hdowden]

Quote:
Thank you

I think most of the babies that you said might be pullets, have pea combs tho, and that is why their combs are so much smaller than the straight, pointy combs on the other chicks. Still, I'm hoping! Again, you've been so helpful, thanks for taking the time!

The chicks are are 1 month, and 2 days today (pics posted today, were taken today). I thought they were four weeks in my original post, but I looked up their hatch date today...so just a little over a month. Okay, so in 2 weeks, we'll try again. Thanks so much for your help. I hope someone can help with the breed of your chickens! The buff colored one especially is so pretty!
Jessa

thank you so far no ones really helped with with my babys but its alright

 

[Jschaaff]

UPDATED PICS. D-Day. I am way too attached, so all my teenage roos have to be rehomed ASAP. They are about 6 weeks old. I can only keep one roo out of this group and I do NOT want to find I messed up and gave away a pullet especially because they babies are my..well, babies and I am dreading parting with any of them. I know it is still early as they're very young, but any help in making my decision on who is a boy and who is a girl, would be great. I didn't add new pics of boston, as I know she is a pullet. I did stick Big Poppa in here, quite certain he's a roo...but he must be a black sex link, not a barred rock, because he is dark like my barred pullets...so checking on his gender too.

Thanks in advance, i appreciate how patient every one has been with all my questions! Oh, please remember some of the combs are smaller because they are peacombs.

Truly,
Jessa






A. This is Evelyn.. Easter Egger ...I think evelyn is an evan and I reeeeaaally want him, to be a Her..but I think Roo. Pea comb

B. This is Houston, Golden comet/Red sex link... she's hard to photograph. I think Pullet. Regular comb

C. This is Philadelphia. Easter Egger. I think Roo. Pea comb

D. This is Paris. Golden comet/Red sex link- I think Roo but was houstons twin, reddish tan when hatched...so if sex link, I assume they would both be pullets, or both roos...But I think Paris a Roo. Regular comb

E. This this is New York. New York is my baby. I wish he was a pullet...but I think Roo

Regular comb.

F. This is Concord. I have NO idea, pullet or roo. Comb is a little redder than it shows in the pics. Pea comb.

G. And I added Big poppa...Black Sex link, maybe Barred Rock. Pretty sure he is a Roo. Reg comb.

 

[greenSearcher]

My 2 cents for what it's worth. Evelyn seems girly to me. Is there any red/bronze on her back or shoulders. Her comb is small for a roo and her feathers seem really rounded. Paris also seems girly. The size of the spot on the head of the baby says boy to me that's with her. You might want to part the feathers on their backs and look at the pin feathers for the saddle feathers. The boys should have ones that are shiney and possibly a different color, whereas the girls will seem to blend in with the other back feathers.

Did you breed the sex links or get them from a hatchery? If they are second generation sexlinks the hybrid characteristics don't breed true, so you could have a boy and a girl that are identical in the second generation.

If this is your own eggs that you hatched, you can expect at least 50% boys. Next time don't name them until you are sure of gender. I have 8 manly boys ready to harvest, and even unnamed and keeping it in my mind they are dinner, I am still devastated. I have but the incubator away, until I know I can harvest the excess roos. I can't give them away and I won't let them go feral, that's not being responsible.

 

[hdowden]

1st...pullet (neck feathers are round which makes her a pullet)
2nd...pullet (combs small and feathers look rounded on the neck)
3rd...pullet (neck feathers are rounded)
4th...roo (neck feathers look pointed and thats a big comb for 6 weeks)
5th...looks roo (are the feathers around new yorks neck round or pointed at the tips its hard to tell but they look pointed)
6th...pullet (rounded neck feathers)
7th..roo (pointed neck feathers)

 

[hdowden]

if you look at the hackle feathers (neck feathers) and they are rounded then your looking at a pullet but if they are long slinder and pointed than its a roo

 

[featherz]

at 6 weeks old, they will not have hackle or saddle feathers. Those come in around 12+ weeks old.

 

[Jschaaff]

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Thanks greenSearcher. Evelyns feathers ARE very rounded and she just LOOKS like a girl (and if she is an evan, well then she is just a very girly looking evan ..and I'll support that lol). There is no red or bronze any where on her, very white, with shades of gray and black on her feathers.


As far as the red sex links, I might have been wrong in calling them that. Momma to Paris and Houston was either my golden comet, or my New Hampshires, and daddy was a columbian rock-I thought the combo made them sex-links. If not, it would make more sense that houston is a girl, and Paris is a boy.


The next, and last batch has already incubated and hatched and are almost 2 weeks old now...28 chicks. Long story, posted somewhere else (Long 120+ degree temp spike...added the last of our fertile eggs to make sure some hatched...lo and behold almost ALL hatched..thus 28 new chicks). Only one has a name, the boy you pointed out in the pic with Paris. He's a little barred rock...."Happy Feet".
NO one else from the new batch has names...and next year, when we do this again, I'll plan better so that I can keep all the chicks til they're old enough to properly sex them, before I have to part with any.

The last 3 roos I raised for 6 months went un-named...but I loved them so much, couldn't help it. Put one in the fridge, he never made it to the freezer...I barely made it thru slaughtering/butchering him (no issue with it w/my meat birds...but my roos...) and he sat in the fridge for three days before I asked hubby to please find him a home in a hole in the woods. I couldn't cook him, couldn't eat him. The other 2 roos got rehomed.

I am lucky enough that I have a lovely woman who will take all my roos for me...but I know eventually they'll end up in her freezer...i'm okay with that...but if I can find someone who wants them for pets...even better.