What gender do you think we are??

[wingnuts]

Hi,

Enclosed are the best pictures I could get today of my little one's white leghorn chickens. Can you give me a best guess on whether we've got roosters or pullets? I'm guessing they are 6-8 weeks old. I know we got them before Mother's Day...but I can't remember when exactly.

Thanks

 

[ArizonaDesertChicks]

Are you sure they are white leghorns? They look more like white rocks to me.

 

[wingnuts]

They could be puff the magic chickens for all of my experience...just parroting what someone told me they were.

I just call them the white chickens.

Thanks for the feedback.

Tracy

 

[SpringChickens]

They all look like pullets to me... with the possible exception of the second picture... and she still looks like a pullet to me.

 

[ve]

They are cornish x rock girls.You do not use them for eggs,thats verry heavy meat breed

 

[ArizonaDesertChicks]

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Well.. if they were leghorns, then there would be no doubt in my mind about them all being females (leghorn roos grown their combs very early), but if they are white rocks, I'd just be guessing. If white rocks - most of them look like females, but the one with the larger comb could go either way - its legs look kind of thick.

FYI: white leghorns lay white eggs - white rocks lay brown eggs - you should be able to tell which one you have by looking at their earlobes - red earlobes mean white rocks and white earlobes, white leghorns. From the picture, it looks like they have red-earlobes, but I'm not very experienced with chicken earlobes

Here's one of my white leghorns at 7-8 weeks:

 

[ArizonaDesertChicks]

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I thought about the possibility of them being cornish rocks, but they didn't look quite heavy enough for a 6-8 week old cornish X (unless their food intake is limited). Mother's day was only a few weeks ago - I guess it depends on how old they really are. If they are only 4-5 week old, I'd say it's a possibility, but if they are truly 6-8 week old, I think I'd go with white rock.

Wingnuts, do they eat all the time and just lay around (meat chickens) or are they pretty active, do they try to fly, and do they like to perch up high when possible? (egg layers)?

 

[wingnuts]

Well this sucks...I think I'm in agreement that my lazy little buggers are meaties.

Now I'm going to have to try to sell them and find some egg layers...grrrrrrrr.

Thank you for the feedback. When you described the laying on the lazy butt thing I went "aha". Then just as a test I went out and watched them. There was one lazy butt laying down eating. Oh well...such is life.

Thank you!!

Tracy