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What gender?

LuciferRoo

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Can anyone tell what gender these two might be?
They are between 2 and 3 weeks old, mixed.
 

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I agree, you’ll probably have to wait a bit longer to know. Do you know which varieties the parents were, and if they were mixes or pure?
 
The father was mixed, probably partially a Barred Plymouth Rock but he was with three hens, so I am not sure about the mom.
The broody is a gray Orpington. The other hen in the flock is probably a Rhode Island Red. I am not sure about the third, but she may be an Astralorp.
Here are photos of the rooster and one of the hens.
 

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The father was mixed, probably partially a Barred Plymouth Rock but he was with three hens, so I am not sure about the mom.
The broody is a gray Orpington. The other hen in the flock is probably a Rhode Island Red. I am not sure about the third, but she may be an Astralorp.
Here are photos of the rooster and one of the hens.
If the parents were both pure barred/cuckoo breeds (where the rooster carried two barred genes), or if together the parents would make sex linked offspring (as with a barred hen and non-barred rooster), then you may have been able to tell by the feathering at this stage I believe. As it is, I think we’ll just have to wait a little longer, like others have said :)
 

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