I’ve had chicks start crowing about then. I thin the earliest may have been 7-8 weeks. It was 4 barnyard mixes, of which 3 ended up being cockerels. Idk, maybe more boys means quicker maturation? But yeah, looks like a couple Roos in those pictures.
What’s funny is that one next to the br in second picture has almost no comb and little color to it and is a pip squeak. Tiny. That would make 3 cockerels. The black, the reddish partridge and the little one we call Squeaker. But that’s the three I’ve been watching for roo signs.
Most of the time with EE red leakage in the neck/wings means cockeral.
Honestly, I only heard someone crow twice before we left for town and it sounded like just one crowing twice. But I didn’t see them so…
Yes, the black one has some very light red on the wings and the brown one too. And the little one has very blotchy color. I’ve just never seen a little cockerel with so small and underdeveloped comb. It’s been interesting to watch it. It’s very brave and always the first one to run up to me but it’s kept in its place by all of the others since it’s so small.
