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

[TC76]

The waddles and comb are signs. But the blue circled area is telling as well. These are saddle feathers. Where hens have a smooth transition to their tail, roosters will have these saddle feathers that lay to the side to accentuate the tail feathers.

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.

 

[Percheron chick]

I'm seeing 2-3 cockerels at this point. Too much red at 15 weeks.
#1 (2nd picture) EE is a boy. Red comb, significantly larger and just had the look. BR for sure. Lighter barring, red comb plus no grey wash down the front of the legs. I question the more white one was well.

 

[EggSighted4Life]

How can you tell so quickly, and that the others aren't? I

Well, dominant copper would actually be sexlinked because it's a cross between black copper Marans rooster and barred rock hen.. with the sire having more input to the shade of egg laid in offspring. He looks exactly right.

For me, there might be more than 1 cockerel in that group.

Usually somewhere between 12-16 weeks male specific pointy saddle feathers will start to become obvious in non hen feathered breeds..

Example from google..

Sometimes pattern can make rounded feathers look pointy.. placing your hand or a sheet of paper behind them can make the shape more clear.

Your one EE, has a nice light shade face still and is the only one I wold comfortably call pullet. (maybe both, I can't tell them apart.

 

[TC76]

I'm seeing 2-3 cockerels at this point. Too much red at 15 weeks.
#1 (2nd picture) EE is a boy. Red comb, significantly larger and just had the look. BR for sure. Lighter barring, red comb plus no grey wash down the front of the legs. I question the more white one was well.

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 chick?--has no comb as all pretty much, and the other has the ridges above it's beak.

 

[TC76]

I'm seeing 2-3 cockerels at this point. Too much red at 15 weeks.
#1 (2nd picture) EE is a boy. Red comb, significantly larger and just had the look. BR for sure. Lighter barring, red comb plus no grey wash down the front of the legs. I question the more white one was well.

Well, dominant copper would actually be sexlinked because it's a cross between black copper Marans rooster and barred rock hen.. with the sire having more input to the shade of egg laid in offspring. He looks exactly right.

For me, there might be more than 1 cockerel in that group.

Usually somewhere between 12-16 weeks male specific pointy saddle feathers will start to become obvious in non hen feathered breeds..

Example from google..
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Sometimes pattern can make rounded feathers look pointy.. placing your hand or a sheet of paper behind them can make the shape more clear.

Your one EE, has a nice light shade face still and is the only one I wold comfortably call pullet. (maybe both, I can't tell them apart.

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 white and white/black are the easter eggers? Maybe I'm backwards there. The browner ones are similar but differ in the comb--one has more pronounced ridge above the nose than the other.

 

[TC76]

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.

 

[Percheron chick]

The brown with the puffy cheeks is 100% EE pullet and the only one for sure. The buff is even questionable. You just have to be there and observe especially since all 4 other than the BR look like mixed.

 

[ValarieF]

Cute chickens.
This one definitely is the cockerel

that was m thought too

 

[Percheron chick]

Hens can have spurs. You look like you have some crested legbar mixed.

 

[3KillerBs]

Sometimes pattern can make rounded feathers look pointy.. placing your hand or a sheet of paper behind them can make the shape more clear.

Just what I was going to post!

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.

Spurs may or may not be relevant. The other day I realized that my definitely female Mottled Java (lays and has been broody), had spurs nearly as big as Rameses, my 10-month cockerel has.

I didn't notice when she started growing them.