The hen in img_1724, she has golden coloring instead of the red of the roo and the black feathers in the neck, which neither parents had, but the rooster's mother did. The other White Rock offspring is also exhibiting similar coloring, but it looks barred, so it's making me think its a cockerel...
UPDATE: in the first picture, you can see my 2 cockerels, Billy and Alan. Alan seems to be much bigger than Billy but Billy is already starting to want to crow; his dad crowed at 7 weeks. I really hope Alan takes his time to crow like Messi, his uncle? Idk how chicken genetics work, he crowed at...
Yeah, basically from the beginning we thought that Alan and Billy were boys, they started to chest butt each other at 2 weeks and at 4 weeks their combs and wattles became even more pronounced. We had also thought that Vincentina and Valentina were cockerels, but they have not developed bigger...
Here are Wilma, Alan and Vincentina, originally Bo but was later named Vincent but we think she is a hen so Tina for short, in the first pic and Billy in the second pic. For some strange reason Billy has that scraggly look about him😂 even though they all all fed the same.
Yes, that is Billy, my nephew named it. My son named Wilson(later turned it to Wilma cuz it has fast feather growth), Alan and Ryan, the 3 black baby chicks after his favorite YouTubers,🤷♀️ LOL. The red baby chicks have still not been named, so I might need to name them. They did name the new...
UPDATE- The 2 yellow chicks and the black chick are once again in the possible cockerel list. I am now of the opinion that these are sex linked; yellow for male and chipmunk for female. The other yellow baby chick with the black line on its head has a rose comb that is now changing color as...
For some strange reason it is not letting me upload pictures so these are screen shots, hopefully they are not too blurry. But of the 4 that I thought might be males, I went and narrowed it down to 3 because they have slower feather growth, but of those 3, we are thinking that the one perched on...
3 WEEK OLD UPDATE
Today I went outside to feed the hens and baby chicks and noticed that Billy, the baby chick with the orange head and slow feather growth in img_1322, has a single comb that is turning pink and has more noticeable growth than the other fast feather growth baby chicks' combs...
It seems that there are 3 baby chicks, 2 red and 1 black, with slow feather growth. The other 4, 2 of each, seem to have a lot of feather growth in their wings and tails. Will continue to post updates as they develop.
Thank you for your reply. I think that at first they were sex linked because when I was given the eggs for my red chickens, the females were all black with golden white bottoms and the males had chipmunk coloring in varying degrees or golden yellow with a big black dot on top of the head and...
They are red. I tried doing the feather sexing and based on that, it seems that I might have 4 pullets and 3 cockerels. Will update the post once it's definitive what they are.
I hatched them in an incubator from my hens eggs. I have 4 black Australorps, 1 white orpington and 3 buff orpington/wyandotte mix, the roo is a buff orpington/wyandotte mix as well.