what breed what gender?

[donrae]

Oh yeah, roosters. The first looks like a second generation sex link--basically a mixed breed--and the second looks like a buff Orpington.

Seeing the red rooster, the white chick could also be a second generation sex link instead of a Rock.

 

[Lady of McCamley]

Yes...with combs that big and red at 6 weeks...most certainly roos from those breeds/mixes. Sorry.

I'm sure your sellers are nice people (at least I hope so), but nice people can be misled and mistaken, and even unintentionally misleading, if their knowledge about chickens isn't thorough, or they don't take time to sort through what is more colloquial than factual, they pass on their mistakes to you. It's easy to set up shop with chickens to sell.

Unfortunately it is the old caveat, "buyer beware." There is a lot of misinformation and purposely misleading information out there from sellers, good and bad.
(I once had a sincere feed store worker tell me that "sex-links" could not be sexed as chicks...little did he know that the whole point of those birds is the ability to tell the sexes from color at hatch. He got to learn something new.)

Hope you can return what you can't keep. Good luck with what you can keep.

If you decide to trade for other birds from this seller, pick birds at this age frame that have small, yellow combs and no wattles of the same breed/mixes you've shown here. Unfortunately I'm thinking they've got barnyard mixes as the red roo is a 2nd generation Red Sex Link...which may be confusing for you and them as the sex link only works the first generation of this hybrid type. You can't breed a Red Sex Link to a Red Sex Link and get sex linked chicks the 2nd generation. So if that's what they think they've got, the are sadly mistaken.

The buff roo looks like a mix to me as well.

I'd also begin to be leery of this seller...they may be highly uninformed, or less than honest.

Lady of McCamley

 

[chickenlver2013]

That much pink in comb and wattles at 6 weeks usually means a rooster.
Sorry.
Wait it out. If it is a roo, those comb and wattles will get really red and large pretty quick.
If a precocious girl, they'll hang like they are for weeks.

Lady of McCamley

I've bought Plymouth Barred Rock pullets at tsc and at 6 weeks they had combs that size.

 

[mimischickens]

well i am really at a loss..........i am surprised that the buff is a mix too?
might as well let everyone see the last one.....supposed to be a austrolorp pullet? also six weeks old

 

[RoostersCrow HensDeliver!]

well i am really at a loss..........i am surprised that the buff is a mix too? might as well let everyone see the last one.....supposed to be a austrolorp pullet? also six weeks old

Yes, that is a female Black Australorp

 

[mimischickens]

Whoopee! It's a girl!!! Whew!

 

[mimischickens]

Update **** my sweet bird "Doll" crowed yesterday

 

[mimischickens]

"Doll" and Pup are bff's .....can't imagine how pup will manage without her best friend