1 month Old English Black Breasted Bantams - all boys but ONE?

[Eggsitter]

You are all so patient with me as I work through the eight stages of rooster grief.... I am stuck in denial, but moving to acceptance.

These photos probably scream rooster to you. I am fighting to find an excuse to keep any of these birds. If I keep a rooster, what should I look for? I think the smallest one, the white headed guy in the last two photos, he has a white beak. He always gives up easily in a chest bump encounter.Here are some photos of ones I question. Their combs aren't as deep red as the others, their tails look like hens' tails.

 

[hdowden]

those are all cockerels. if you can keep a rooster in your area then grown them out to about 20 weeks (you will know by then for sure which are cockerels and which are pullets) and keep the one you like the best. they all look like they are mixed colors right now. i like the last one's coloring (even though it appears a mix of colors) but that's me and you need to pic the one you like and if you are going on closest to the correct color you will need to grow them out some more to get a better idea of their coloring

here's a site with different colors in oegb. after the pics of the adults there is another link to click and it takes you to even more adult pics. http://www.feathersite.com/Poultry/Games/GameBantams/BRKOEGBantams.html