Help sexing 4 week old chicks

[Shoemacl]

Hi all. We brought home our baby chicks about 4 weeks ago from a local hatchery and although all were sexed, I’m wondering what I was sold. All of them appear to have a comb at this point, minus little Sweetpea in the back who is surprisingly the same age as the rest - she has a great appetite but struggling to grow.

What are your thoughts on their sex or too soon to tell? I bought 2 Lavendar Orpingtons, 2 Buff, 2 Cream Legbar, 1 BBS Ameraucana and 1 Barred Rock.

Thanks in advance!

 

[500Chickens]

what i think is the barred rock looks like a roo... could you label the pictures so i know what breeds are which?

 

[Shoemacl]

what i think is the barred rock looks like a roo... could you label the pictures so i know what breeds are which?

Sure I’ll try to label and maybe get better pictures. I have a video too but I guess you can’t upload those

 

[AinaWGSD]

4 weeks is a little too young to tell with any certainty. But from those pictures no one jumps out at as an obvious cockerel. The black one does have a larger comb, which could mean cockerel or it could just be a pullet with a big comb.

 

[redinator]

Sure I’ll try to label and maybe get better pictures. I have a video too but I guess you can’t upload those

Upload to YouTube and post the link

 

[redinator]

Hi all. We brought home our baby chicks about 4 weeks ago from a local hatchery and although all were sexed, I’m wondering what I was sold. All of them appear to have a comb at this point, minus little Sweetpea in the back who is surprisingly the same age as the rest - she has a great appetite but struggling to grow.

What are your thoughts on their sex or too soon to tell? I bought 2 Lavendar Orpingtons, 2 Buff, 2 Cream Legbar, 1 BBS Ameraucana and 1 Barred Rock.

Thanks in advance!

Is it possible Sweetpea is a bantam or bantam mix, that could account for the size difference if everything else seems fine with eating, drinking, pooping and energy wise.

 

[Chebird]

We have one that grew much slower than anyone else. She is a chocolate Orpington. She is catching up now to the others at 7 weeks. I agree with the above poster: no one is looking like a roo yet.