Black copper maran - hen or roo

Hi,
I have 8 chickens 5 are lavender orpington's and 3 black copper marans. I have 2 marans that are a lot bigger than all the rest. I saw one do a little 'dance'. He fluffed up and stuck a wing out and ushered the other chickens to move out of the way. I've never seen it before or heard of a chicken doing something like that. If I have 2 chicks that are substancial bigger than the other chicks. Does that mean the big ones are roo's? I'll post pic in the morning.

The dancing sounds definitely like a boy thing. Size-wise, though, marans are substantially larger than most other breeds so they'll be bigger no matter what. The girls also get really large combs so you'll just have to wait til the sex feathers come in to know for sure.
 

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