Two babies. Breed and male or female?

[christy7981]

 

[christy7981]

They are two weeks old.

 

[Crazy for Chickens!]

They look like barred rocks. As for gender, you need to wait probably 2-4 more weeks, then post more pictures. But I think the bottom one is looking more like a cockerel to me....

 

[Gray Farms]

Much to young to sex. Most likely Barred Rocks

 

[drumstick diva]

Looks like Barred Rocks but, much too young

 

[Littleshadow]

Defiantly barred rocks.

Generally, I sex my barred rock chicks the day they hatch using a few methods.

Males are MUCH lighter, almost a gray color while the females tend to be very darker, almost black besides their white chest and white head spot. This isn't always 100% because sometimes females can be light like males(not as light though). However, I've bred BR for 10 years and never had a dark male.

When their wings Feather out you can usually sex them rather easily. Look at 2 of mine below and you can kinda see what to look for.

The first is a female at about 4 weeks. The second is a male also 4 weeks. Note how the male is almost evening white and black barred while the female is more black then white.
Post pictures at 4-5 weeks and I'm sure we can tell you exactly what you got <3

Males will generally be evenly barred because they carry 2 barring genes while the females only carry a single barring gene so they don't have as much barring.

 

[debid]

Single comb and barring USUALLY equals barred Rock. That's the most common at the farm stores. But, there are other possibilities depending on where you got them and what color those legs you've effectively hidden are.

 

[christy7981]

Single comb and barring USUALLY equals barred Rock. That's the most common at the farm stores. But, there are other possibilities depending on where you got them and what color those legs you've effectively hidden are.

Wasn't on purpose. They were trying to fly away. Lol

 

[debid]

OK, yellow legs. And where did you get them?

If you didn't get them from a hatchery or from a farm store that buys from hatcheries, I wouldn't presume them to be pure anything. Barring is really easy to pass along to a mixed breed chick and then the coloring people use to judge gender early on is useless.

ETA: I didn't forget about breeders. It's just that if you got them from a breeder, you'd definitely know their breed!