Is this a rooster?

[emilyschartz21]

The colors in mine aren't really those. He's pretty dark black plus some brownish in his neck feathers. The middle one is the one in question.

black sex link rooster. Barred rock roosters are only black and white.

 

[drumstick diva]

You could post HIS photos at "what breed or gender is this."

 

[emilyschartz21]

I will definitely try that as well! Thanks!

You could post HIS photos at  "what breed or gender is this."

 

[junebuggena]

I got them at Wardell feed in wheat ridge colorado. They are about two months old.

Do you know where they source their chicks from? What hatchery do they use? If they are from a hatchery, then they should be black sexlink pullets. If they get their chicks from local farms, well then, they're anybodies guess...

 

[emilyschartz21]

They have a local farm that delivers all the chicks to them. This farm delivers all the chicks every year.

Do you know where they source their chicks from? What hatchery do they use? If they are from a hatchery, then they should be black sexlink pullets. If they get their chicks from local farms, well then, they're anybodies guess...

 

[junebuggena]

In that case, you very well may have some mixed breed cockerels instead of Black sexlink pullets.

 

[emilyschartz21]

Dang ok. Maybe I'll take it back to place I got it and see if they can tell me what it is. If it's a pullet or rooster........:

In that case, you very well may have some mixed breed cockerels instead of Black sexlink pullets. 

 

[Lelilamom]

I think that's a pullet. Here is one my RIR Roos at 3 mos and 2 weeks. It doesn't look like the chick in your picture is going to grow a comb and waddle that big in the next 4 weeks or so. The other chickens in the picture are over a year old.




Here is a Red Sex Link and an Amber White pullet from the same group as the roo. We bought them all at the same time, March 1, 2013.

 

[emilyschartz21]

Mines butt feathers look like the ones on the RIR you posted a pic of. The rest of the stuff just doesn't look like a rooster so idk what to do......so this should be a pullet? I mean it's comb and wattles have barely started growing in.

I think that's a pullet. Here is one my RIR Roos at 3 mos and 2 weeks. It doesn't look like the chick in your picture is going to grow a comb and waddle that big in the next 4 weeks or so. The other chickens in the picture are over a year old. The tail feathers on the RIR roo you put look like the feathers on the one I have. Long like that but nothing else on it looks like a rooster. I'm really hoping mines a pullet. Here is a Red Sex Link and an Amber White pullet from the same group as the roo. We bought them all at the same time, March 1, 2013.

 

[Lelilamom]

I think that chick is a pullet. My roos (I had four of them in 2013) all grew a comb and waddle that big at about 3 mos. They started crowing at about 18 weeks. However, I will tell you that we noticed them to be the most aggressive of the bunch (we had 12 birds total) while still in the brooder - 5 or 6 weeks at the oldest. Their combs were noticeably larger by then as well. Tail feathers however, were about the same as the pullets until about 8 weeks.

BTW, we ended up eating them. They were too aggressive.

Hope this helps. Good luck.