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8 weeks old. Safe to say pullet? First time having Orpington babies and people tell me it’s hard to tell gender with them but she barely has any comb and she is now 8 weeks old today.

Not quite 4 weeks and looking like I was wrong about 1 cockerel and 1 pullet? The one I thought was a pullet (light one) is getting little wattles. I’m so unsure of this breed though.

Oh yes I am totally aware of that. We have raised chicks before but they were a wee bit older. One cuddly cockerel ended up being rehome for that very reason eek

Pekin and unsure of colouring etc as the lady we got the eggs from had a few different pekins but no Brahma mentioned

Not that I know of. We got Pekin eggs to sit under our broody hen. No Brahma mentioned. Will be interesting to see what they look like. They have changed so much already

Thank you 😊 Just what I thought. My granddaughter will be delighted as she wanted the other one to be a pullet. We are absolutely adoring them either way.

We have 2 babies that hatched nearly 3 weeks ago and I hear Pekin chickens are easy to tell the gender by 3 weeks. I’m thinking the black one is a boy so far. Any ideas or too soon to tell?

First time poster long time reader. I know it’s early as they are only 3 weeks but any ideas on gender yet? I’m thinking the black is a boy. I hope pics can be seen here as not sure I have done it right. I may need to add them to my YouTube