Golden Buff Chicks - female?

[ChristinesChix]

We just bought these two golden buff chicks. How can we be sure that they are both females?

 

[torilovessmiles]

"Golden Buff" is generally a name for a red-sexlinked chicken. This means that they are a hybrid which the gender is identifiable at hatching. Males are white, and females are darker with red-brown chipmunk marks and female chicks and grown red-brown to buff feathers with white accents.
Because they are red, they are females, unless they are using to name "golden buff" to describe something else. Even then, they look like pullets to me anyway from the pictures
They are egg-laying machines. They will most likely give you an egg nearly every day, even in the winter!

 

[ChristinesChix]

Thank you! We got our other 8 chickens at the end of March and just found out that one of our favorites, a buff orpington named Butterscotch, is most likely a male. That means we can't keep him.

 

[torilovessmiles]

Thank you! We got our other 8 chickens at the end of March and just found out that one of our favorites, a buff orpington named Butterscotch, is most likely a male. That means we can't keep him.

Unfortunately, having males every now and then is all part of owning chickens, unless you only order sex-linked varieties. If you would like to try and keep him, there are "no-crow" collars to keep them from crowing. They simply restrict the amount of air that can be pushed out at once, so he can breathe fine and make all of the other noises, but his crow is significantly muffled. There are videos of what this sounds like on youtube.
If that's not an option, the fact that he is an Orpington, in my opinion, increases his chances of finding a home. Orpingtons are often peoples' first and favorite option for a rooster because they are known for being docile and friendly, and many people like to skip the brooding process by getting adult or juvenile birds
Good luck, and enjoy your chickens!

 

[ChristinesChix]

We have a choice of 2 homes!

 

[Michael OShay]

We just bought these two golden buff chicks. How can we be sure that they are both females?

Golden Buff is one of a number of labels under which some hatcheries market their Red Sex Links which are produced by crossing a red gene rooster with a silver gene hen. The resulting offspring can be sexed by color from hatching (male chicks are white, female chicks are red/gold). Your chicks are definitely pullets. Red Sex Links are egg laying machines, outlaying either parent breed. It's one of the interesting quirks of hybridization. You should get loads of large, brown eggs from those two girls. )

 

[Michael OShay]

We have a choice of 2 homes!

I'm assuming this is Butterscotch; he's definitely a male. (

 

[BantamLover21]

I don't see much white on your new chicks, which might mean that they're Production Reds, not Red Sex-links/Golden Buffs. If that is the case, they're too young to sex. If they are Golden Buffs, however, then they're definitely pullets.

 

[Wyandottes7]

I'm assuming this is Butterscotch; he's definitely a male. (

Agreed

 

[ChristinesChix]

How can we know if they are truly Golden Buffs...other than the nursery telling us? They get them from Meyer's Hatchery (Ohio).