Please help barred rock chick know what gender!

Mar 3, 2025
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We recently bought some barred rock chicks, and they were supposed to be all pullets, but they look different. So we are wondering if there is anyone who could please help sex the chicks. We really need to know if there are any males so that we can re-home the males because we have a small flock and we don’t want the males to fight with the others. We looked up how to sex chicks and they said we could vent sex and feather sex chicks so I have sent pictures of wings and vent.

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We recently bought some barred rock chicks, and they were supposed to be all pullets, but they look different.
Chick #2 is not a Barred Rock. It is not a "barred" anything, because it does not have barring. It could be a Black Sexlink pullet, or it could be either sex of any breed that grows up to be solid black (Black Jersey Giant, Black Australorp, Black Minorca, etc.) There are probably a few other possibiliies I have forgotten, too.

Chick #1 and chick #3 do have barring. They could be Barred Rocks, in which case I don't know if they are males or females. They could be males of Black Sexlinks, or they could be some other breed that is black with white barring.

All three with their mama
Did you get them as eggs for her to hatch? Or as chicks for her to adopt?
 

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