Hens or Roos

[catiecatie]

So this is my first group of chickens. Bought them all at tractor supply and they were all supposed to be sexed but now that they're almost 7 weeks, I don't think they're all girls. The first is a Leghorn, the two dark ones are Black Copper Marans and the brown ones are Rhode Island Reds. Thoughts?

 

[skeeeter]

All but the first one look like boys to me.

 

[catiecatie]

All but the first one look like boys to me.

Yeah that's my fear

 

[skeeeter]

Once I bought 12 chicks and 9 turned out to be roosters. So now I always buy straight run and 3 times more than I need of hens. But, I don't mind eating chicken. So, there's that.

 

[catiecatie]

Once I bought 12 chicks and 9 turned out to be roosters. So now I always buy straight run and 3 times more than I need of hens. But, I don't mind eating chicken. So, there's that.

The Marans and the Rhode Islands were in straight run pullet bins. Only the Leghorn was unsexed. But it seems that I only got one girl and I can only keep two roosters in my neighborhood so Ill probably have to re-home.

 

[BastyPutt]

All but the first one look like boys to me.

I agree. The leghorns can be deceiving as pullets can have very large, droopy combs - but the waddles would make me say cockerel.

 

[Mylittlechickchippy]

Once I bought 12 chicks and 9 turned out to be roosters. So now I always buy straight run and 3 times more than I need of hens. But, I don't mind eating chicken. So, there's that.

Straight run means unsexed

 

[The Moonshiner]

Straight run means unsexed

Hence why they buy 3Xs as many as the number of females they want.