Barred Plymouth Rock - slow to feather or a rooster?

[johnblaze]

The legs are SO thick compared to the others!

 

[LaFleche]

The white one behind him looks like another cockerel to me...

 

[Mamatomany123]

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The legs are SO thick compared to the others!

That one behind him in the first pic looks cockerel also

 

[johnblaze]

We’ll see... the Delaware has the 2nd largest comb for sure. I have 10 chicks and am only allowed 8 where I live and no roosters. Might try and find a new home for the barred rock now, I’ve been pretty convinced it’s a cockerel and you al are confirming! I’ll have to get rid of another eventually, regardless.

 

[Zoethedog]

It looks exactly like my Barred Rock rooster that I picked up today.

 

[cluckmecoop7]

Rooster (cockerel. - young rooster)

 

[johnblaze]

Doesn’t have the thick legs or the “stance” like the barred rock, the tail feathers are looking like all the pullets, but the comb is getting big and reddish

 

[Offshoreorca]

Yep, those both look like cockerels to me (the barred rock and the white one).

 

[johnblaze]

That’s what I’m thinking too, unfortunately

 

[ShrekDawg]

How old are they? That comb should not be that red so early. Large comb alone doesn’t necessarily mean cockerel as I’ve had girls with large combs but the fact that it is bright red so early is a definite indicator, I’m afraid. usually the girls combs don’t begin to redden until they get ready to lay. So I’d say you definitely have two boys, unfortunately.