BCM - any cockerels?

[FFunnyFarm]

Are any of these guys male? Or all pullets just some with waddles? Hatched in May

 

[Yard Farmer]

I think you need to check for saddle feathers.
Males will have red saddles coming in.

 

[african chickens]

All look like pullets

 

[FFunnyFarm]

All look like pullets

Dang it! I wanted 1 rooster out of the bunch lol

 

[JedJackson]

How old are they?

 

[FFunnyFarm]

How old are they?

~ 3 months, hatched in May

 

[JedJackson]

~ 3 months, hatched in May

So they are right at that point where males should start showing male specific feathering. I'm not seeing any yet, but some of them have very large combs for that age, especially in contrast to the two definite females in pictures 4 and 6.

So I'm not convinced they are all pullets. But if they don't show male specific feathering within the next three weeks I'd say they're all females.

Male specific feathering in this breed would should as bright red shoulder patches and the slim, hanging feathers falling off the sides of the lower back, which would also be red. That's what to watch for.