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In the Brooder
I recently took in some RIR chickens and was curious if anyone knew how to tell the gender in them ! Any information helps ! Thank you !
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Thank you ! I’ll keep updating !The tiny pale combs are more likely to be pullets, and the bigger combs showing more red will be cockerels. So far it looks like at least one cockerel, but it's early yet. Look again in two or three weeks.
Mary
Thank you ! Not really sure we got them from a farm well a friend had actually got them from a farm for us so we didn’t even pick them out ! And just said they didn’t know any gender and we just knew we wanted 6 and was hoping to get some hens thank you !Still to young to tell. Did you buy them as straight run or sexed pullets? Usually you can start to see evidence of cockerels by 5-6 weeks, so I would post more photos then. Some people look at the tail development and feathering speed (if it feathers slower or the tail is much smaller than the others, it may be a cockerel). I don't know how reliable this is, but so far it has been the case with my cockerels. These guys still just have nubs, no tail feathers to speak of, so I would just wait.