Rooster?

[brok3n]

Is this a rooster and also any idea on breed?

 

[brok3n]

The rest are hens....I hope. Any ideas on breeds?

 

[lauranickerson]

First of all, I'm no expert. Hopefully someone else will back me up/correct me.

The dark one DOES have pretty a pretty large comb and waddles. But then again, it kind of looks like a female Black Sex Link to me.

I have pullets that look just like your red ones. I've heard a million names for them, but some are Production Red, Golden Comet, Red Sex Link. As far as I know, the males will not have that same coloring, so you should have pullets.

So MY guess is all pullets. If that blackish one IS a pullet, it looks pretty close to laying...

 

[deserthomestead]

Do you know how old it is? If all else fails, wait for crowing and hope for the best!

 

[Kev]

First of all, I'm no expert. Hopefully someone else will back me up/correct me.

The dark one DOES have pretty a pretty large comb and waddles. But then again, it kind of looks like a female Black Sex Link to me.

I have pullets that look just like your red ones. I've heard a million names for them, but some are Production Red, Golden Comet, Red Sex Link. As far as I know, the males will not have that same coloring, so you should have pullets.

So MY guess is all pullets. If that blackish one IS a pullet, it looks pretty close to laying...

Good try. It's a boy but it looks either a too dark welsumer or more probably a partridge rock. same goes for the dark hen. Great summary for "red sex links" thats what the light colored pullets are. Usually the different names refer to a specific line or to the breeds used in making said line.

 

[brok3n]

Thanks for the info everyone. We bought them at TSC around Easter. I am excited and really like them...think I've caught the chicken fever.

 

[brok3n]

The rescue "tame deer" checking out the chickens. She's funny also.

 

[my sunwolf]

Hatchery Partridge Plymouth Rock rooster, as Kev said.

 

[lauranickerson]

Haha, told you I'm no expert.

 

[my sunwolf]

Haha, told you I'm no expert.

Yeah but you knew that the red ones were sex-link pullets!