Black Australorp chick - male or female?

[NatJ]

Kind of hard to tell, but I might go with roo? It's hard at this age.

If you read through the rest of the thread, you can see updated pictures at several ages. The oldest are 12 weeks, by which time the owner was fairly confident the bird was female:

Here’s my big girl now at 12 weeks!
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[Gazergirlstar]

wow lol just saw this thread and what a journey , i could never be as patient as you were