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    5 ‘chicks’. One faint rooster crow-help?

    Thank you. And I finally caught the crow in action just a bit ago after I started this thread. The barred/copper sexlink was the culprit as identified by all of you.
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    5 ‘chicks’. One faint rooster crow-help?

    Also with the ones I think are the color pack's (brown), the one with the more pronounced comb has a tiny start to spurs, while the other one doesn't. Does that matter? The two that I think are easter eggers also have a little tiny spurs and the dom copper rooster has a little bigger spurs.
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    5 ‘chicks’. One faint rooster crow-help?

    Thanks for the info! So it probably is a dominant copper and the guy at the store should have been able to tell as a brand new chick. Dang. As for the others, --not seeing the signs of the saddle feathers yet. I need a more trained eye! I think the browner ones are the color packs, and the...
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    5 ‘chicks’. One faint rooster crow-help?

    Thanks for the info, and...Oh, crud...so maybe both EE's (hoping the white one at least is a hen) and the BR for sure are little roosters. I don't see a pronounced saddle feathers yet there on the EE's. And I did notice the combs are different on the color pacs. One is definitely a...
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    5 ‘chicks’. One faint rooster crow-help?

    Ah, copy that, thanks! I'll have to double check the rest of my chicks don't have that, but I think I'm all right.
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    5 ‘chicks’. One faint rooster crow-help?

    Thanks!
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    5 ‘chicks’. One faint rooster crow-help?

    Seems pretty docile so far. May be a keeper! I guess I was getting at what specifically about the picture gave away that he is a cockerel? Doesn't seem to have the tailfeathers yet, and some of the others had the comb and wattles. Besides that he is bigger than the rest, and definitely was...
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    5 ‘chicks’. One faint rooster crow-help?

    Thanks for the quick responses!! How can you tell so quickly, and that the others aren't? I appreciate the knowledge moving forward. I have 4 mature chickens also between 2 and 7 years old so, if the rest of my chicks are really hens, would it be a good thing to keep a rooster?
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    5 ‘chicks’. One faint rooster crow-help?

    I am raising 5 new chicks this year-got them on May 6th, ‘22. So, 3 1/2 months old or so. 2 Easter eggers, 2 color packs, and supposedly one dominant copper, although it looks like a barred rock now. We hear a faint crow in the morning but haven’t been able to catch it in action. Which one could...
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