Roo or hen?

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Might be early to tell but I think the latter 2 might be Roos... I live in the country so no biggie but the lakenvelder is my daughters chicken and we got it from the feed store out of a pullet bin. Her Wyandotte looks like a pullet to me but I'll add it just to check... It's also a feed store chicken. I'm new to chickens and I'm trying to figure out who is what :)

SLW Rose...
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My 8 year old says rose is part parrot... I can't wait till rose is full grown and tries to sit on her shoulder! Lol

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Lakenvelder 4-5 weeks

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Astrolorp mix? 3 weeks-ish?

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The Lavender is a wait on.
Its comb is big.It has rooster feathering .The Lavender I would wait on.Its comb is WAY light and normally cockerals have red colored combs.Its bigger then the rest and it has fatness to it.
The Orp a little cockeral.Really we should wait.Although hens do not form combs until weeks later they.If they do its light not dark red or red.The Austrolorp is a rooster.That breeds chicks grow dark combs and as they grow it gets redder.I don't know if you notice,but its growing red pretty early.Rose is a hen.The Lavender like I said its more then likely cockleral.2 roosters will keep your flock safe though!
 
Its too young to tell for sure. However, I'm leaning towards rooster on the Lakenvelder-- that's a large comb for the age, though its not red. Still, post more photos in a couple of weeks. Lakenvelders, like all Mediterranean-class breeds, mature faster and get large combs and wattles sooner, so yours may still be a female.

Your other birds are looking like pullets, in my opinion.
 
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Its too young to tell for sure. However, I'm leaning towards rooster on the Lakenvelder-- that's a large comb for the age, though its not red. Still, post more photos in a couple of weeks. Lakenvelders, like all Mediterranean-class breeds, mature faster and get large combs and wattles sooner, so yours may still be a female.

Your other birds are looking like pullets, in my opinion.
Well mayube to young but no youngster has a comb like that
 

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