Sexing Barred Rocks - Help Please :)

[Ukukwi]

I have 3 Barred Rocks about 6-1/2 weeks old (hatched Dec 26th, 2008) and I could use a little help determining the sex of them. I have read about feather color, leg color, comb and wattle color, but based on all of that I think I have 3 calves...

Any help you could offer based on the pictures here would be much appreciated.


Rock #1

Rock #2

Rock #3

Thanks for your help.

 

[HorseFeathers]

Sorry, all look like roos to me.

 

[speckledhen]

If they are really less than 7 weeks old, they are all cockerels. The pic below is of two of my hens, but at 12 weeks old--you can see they still dont have combs as large as your chicks. And they are much darker.

 

[Ukukwi]

Wow, that's a significant size difference.

I have to say I am truly bummed, though. We aren't allowed to have roosters in our city.

Now I guess we just have to figure out what to do with them.

Thanks for your help.

 

[rodriguezpoultry]

Sorry...all look like cockerels to me too.

 

[PineBurrowPeeps]

Those are Roo's hun. Sorry.

 

[Master S.M.C]

Yep all males, sorry.

 

[HorseFeathers]

Just for comparison, this is a BR hen around 6-7 weeks:

Big difference huh?

 

[Ukukwi]

OK, now you have us worried. We also have 3 Buff Orpingtons. Would you mind taking a look at them?

They were hatched around December 15th, 2008.

Buff #1

Buff #1 (Picture #2)

Buff #2

Buff #3

Thanks, again, for your help.

 

[HorseFeathers]

The Buffs look like pullets to me.