What am I?

[twentynine]

Eight weeks old. First picture is what I have been thinking all along is/was a rooster. But now that it is a couple months old I am not so sure any more. Very little bit of whattle and the comb doesn't seem to have grown at all since he/she was 4 weeks old. Generally this is a big chicken, one of the largest in the group, not as aggressive as the production red pullets or the black sex link pullets. Coloration is making me lean towards a black sex link pullet. But I don't know.

Next thing I have a question about is this light brahma. Eight weeks old. Everyone has proclaimed it a pullet. But jeez if this is a girl she's a big girl. So is this a cockeral or a pulltet. No whattles at all, and a very small trace of a ridge in the comb. Always the last one to go into the feeding frenzy, when I give them their live minnow treat. Easy to catch, and I truly believe she likes being held. She coos and chuckles when held. I have never had any of the brahma breeds before, but if all of them are like this, I will be getting more.

 

[tman332003]

The top photo looks a bit washed out, but it does look like a couple of the BSL pullets I got this year......A little more orange than black.....do the shanks have any gray/black shadingwith the yellow? If so probably a BSL pullet.
The second one Im not positive, but it does look pullet. Been a while since I had a brahma....And yes, mine were docile as well. Best of luck.

 

[Goose and Fig]

The first bird looks like an Easter Egger. As for the brahma- they are big birds. Looks like a pullet. If her tail droops down when she gets bigger- then it's a roo.

 

[RL]

I am not sure on the EE's - I've never had any, but the Light Brahma at the bottom is a pullet. If it were a boy the comb would be bigger and he would have splotchy black feathering down his back.

Brahmas are big birds, she can weigh up to 11lbs when fully grown. You'll have a very nice LB hen there.

 

[ArizonaDesertChicks]

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At what age do the light brahmas start getting splochy feathering down their backs? I also have a LB chick that I'm hoping is a pullet.

 

[Hazelnut]

Could the first one be a Welsummer?

 

[twentynine]

Nearest I can tell it could be anything.

It originated from a feed stores, free chick give away day. 10 free chicks with the purchase of 50# of starter. The young lady at the feed store, said at the time that she thought they were BSL. When she said that, being an old chicken hand myself, when my granddaughter picked a black chick I'd make sure it didn't have a white spot on it's head. Still ended up with two BSL cockerals for sure. The other stuff was two sicilian cockerals, the light brahma, and a white rock cockeral.

Along the way I lost two chicks, one to flip and the other to a rat attack. Since then I have rehomed one of the sicilians, one of the BSL cockerals and the white rock. I replaced them with two production red pullets and two BSL pullets.

 

[RL]

ArizonaDesertChicks, My LB cockeral started showing the splotchy black feathering down his back around 4 weeks old. here is a pic of him a little over 5 weeks old. I need to get rid of him so if any one near Dallas, Texas wants him. I think he is 6 weeks old now.

He is standing in the middel. You can see his comb and head are bigger then the pullets.

 

[Kirtusjon]

does the first one have a rose comb?