are these cockerels?

UPDATE: in the first picture, you can see my 2 cockerels, Billy and Alan. Alan seems to be much bigger than Billy but Billy is already starting to want to crow; his dad crowed at 7 weeks. I really hope Alan takes his time to crow like Messi, his uncle? Idk how chicken genetics work, he crowed at 14 weeks.
I do not know about the genetics that affect crowing age. It probably does have a large genetic component, but I don't know any details.

I have noticed that the first cockerel to crow is sometimes the biggest, sometimes the smallest, sometimes one in between. I think sometimes s small bird is behind in development (crows later), but sometimes the small one is ahead because he put less energy into growing big and more into sexual maturity instead.

Is it normal for the cockerel of a black hen/red rooster to be all black?
That is pretty common.

Both the black pullets have a black neck but the rest of the feathers are either copper tinted or golden striped like the pic I included of Wilma.
That is also pretty common.

What really surprised me is that my red roo/ white rock hen mix is showing the same body type of the hen but the coloring is not at all like my other hens. Included a pic of her because she was the original maybe cockerel cuz she had slow like both parents. Vincentina is actually bigger than Billy but the same size as Alan, she is the biggest pullet of the bunch.
The black one? She probably got the genes to be all-black from her mother, but without the gene that makes her mother actually be white. (Or more accurately, the gene that makes the mother white is probably recessive, so the chick inherited just one copy of that gene, which doe not cause any visible effect.)
 
The black one? She probably got the genes to be all-black from her mother, but without the gene that makes her mother actually be white. (Or more accurately, the gene that makes the mother white is probably recessive, so the chick inherited just one copy of that gene, which doe not cause any visible effect.)
The hen in img_1724, she has golden coloring instead of the red of the roo and the black feathers in the neck, which neither parents had, but the rooster's mother did. The other White Rock offspring is also exhibiting similar coloring, but it looks barred, so it's making me think its a cockerel. Will try to find a picture of it and post it.
 
This one does seem to have white spots s/he is 4 weeks old.
 

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The hen in img_1724, she has golden coloring instead of the red of the roo and the black feathers in the neck, which neither parents had, but the rooster's mother did. The other White Rock offspring is also exhibiting similar coloring, but it looks barred, so it's making me think its a cockerel. Will try to find a picture of it and post it.
Oh, I see what you mean.

The hen probably contributed genes that made the red lighter.

For the black feathers in the neck, it could be passed down from the rooster's mother, or it could be coming from the White Rock mother of the chick, or more likely it is coming from both sources.

Yes, barring should mean a cockerel if the father has no barring.
 
This one does seem to have white spots s/he is 4 weeks old.
Definitely an interesting pattern there.

I can't decide if that is actually barring, or if it is one of the confusing patterns that chicks get sometimes. I've been fooled by chick patterns on a number of occasions, so I've been learning a bit of caution there :lol:
 
Definitely an interesting pattern there.

I can't decide if that is actually barring, or if it is one of the confusing patterns that chicks get sometimes. I've been fooled by chick patterns on a number of occasions, so I've been learning a bit of caution there :lol:
Yeah I cannot stop thinking that it's a cockerel even though its comb is not that developed and not as pink as the other hatch mate. But the pattern is looking more and more barred😩.
 
Update- The black cockerel has been renamed to Tyson and he is now crowing. Billy still hasn't crowed.
 

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