BCM or "Egger" cockerel?

[Airyaman]

So I hatched some supposed BCM eggs earlier this year. Only 2/12 hatched, and I got male and one female. The female is some type of egger because while she has some BCM markings, as well as lightly feather covered legs, she also has a crest.

All of the eggs were very dark brown.

Now here is the cockerel, 17 weeks old:

So does this look like (close to) a "full blooded" BCM, or is he an "egger"?

Thanks!

 

[Lady of McCamley]

Looks like a full BCM. They can have quite a bit of copper coloring. He has the right body style. Light feathers outside legs. Copper eye. Came out of a dark brown egg. Yeah, I can believe that's a BCM.

 

[Airyaman]

Looks like a full BCM. They can have quite a bit of copper coloring. He has the right body style. Light feathers outside legs. Copper eye. Came out of a dark brown egg. Yeah, I can believe that's a BCM.

Thanks.

He's such a big wimp. He eats all day, doesn't crow, and hasn't even begun to show an interest in his ladies. But then he was raised only around them as the only male, so he's probably just going to take awhile for the natural instincts to kick in.

He does hear a bunch of the other cockerels crow, even the BAs that are younger than him, yet he hasn't even tried (to my knowledge).

 

[Lady of McCamley]

Nothing socializes a young teen rooster better than a flock of matrons to keep him in line. I broody raise my chicks, and momma introduces them to the flock, protects them until they are fledged. Then when the boys come of age, it is soooo funny to watch the matrons tell them where they can stand and what they can do and when they can do it. The worse situation for raising a rooster is when he is the only roo (or group) with young teen siblings. That gets pretty raucous on the roos part as the teen girls don't know how to tell them off.

Likely he'll warm up to his duties in time once he convinces the old gals with his charm.

LofMc

 

[Airyaman]

Nothing socializes a young teen rooster better than a flock of matrons to keep him in line. I broody raise my chicks, and momma introduces them to the flock, protects them until they are fledged. Then when the boys come of age, it is soooo funny to watch the matrons tell them where they can stand and what they can do and when they can do it. The worse situation for raising a rooster is when he is the only roo (or group) with young teen siblings. That gets pretty raucous on the roos part as the teen girls don't know how to tell them off.

Likely he'll warm up to his duties in time once he convinces the old gals with his charm.

LofMc

It was funny earlier. Sometimes I will leave one or two of the oldest flock out. It's always my CCL cockerel with the weird toes, and either an SS or CCL pullet. Well, the CCL pullet was out, and the BCM cockerel finally wanted to show some toughness so he puffed out his feathers and approached her. She then backed his rear-end up and he took off like another pullet.

He's not used to confrontation, they are the calmest flock of the bunch.