Beautiful twin white Cochins

[Tslauson]

I'm a bit confused! I got 12 chickens that were hatched on April 1 this year. First time chicken owner. 3 RIR, 4 Cochin 1 blue, 1 black and 2 white, 3 buff orpington, 2 Leghorns. A few weeks in we found out that one of the RIR was rooster. Once they were big enough to go out to the coop we noticed that the white Cochins were kinda mean always picking on the others. We thought about getting rid of them but they were just so pretty and we can't tell if it one of them or both. So we keep a close on on them. The rooster has found his place and has been crowing and mating for a few weeks now. But he doesn't with any of the cochins. ( we got our first eggs this past weekend and have gotten 1 every day for one of the leg horns) yesterday I saw one of the white Cochins crow and they did it a few times. Later that night the white Cochin mounted the leghorn and mated just like my rooster. And again this morning. While my leghorn was in the nesting box laying one of the white Cochins stayed right outside the box and crowed. I'm so confused! Is she a he and if she is are they both roosters because they are identical!

 

[KikiLeigh02]

Do you have any photos? Sounds like the Cochins may both be cockerels.

 

[Alexandra33]

Pictures, if you have any, would be quite helpful!

~Alex

 

[Frazzemrat1]

agree with pics... but if crowing and mating is going on, then you have at least on cockerel with those two.

 

[Tslauson]

Do you have any photos? Sounds like the Cochins may both be cockerels.

We thought the same thing back when we first put them in the coop so I brought them to our chicken friend and she said no. They haven't changed much since then. But I am going to try and get a picture.

 

[Tslauson]

Do you have any photos? Sounds like the Cochins may both be cockerels.

I just posted pictures

 

[Frazzemrat1]

can you take a pic of each of them, with your hand under a couple of the saddle feathers? They look like cockerels to me, but I want to see the saddle feathers to be sure. White chickens are very difficult to judge, especially from a pic.
Incidentally, this is what you're looking for.

 

[Tslauson]

can you take a pic of each of them, with your hand under a couple of the saddle feathers? They look like cockerels to me, but I want to see the saddle feathers to be sure. White chickens are very difficult to judge, especially from a pic.
Incidentally, this is what you're looking for.
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[Tslauson]

They are hard to catch so this is the best I can do for now.

 

[KikiLeigh02]

You can definitely see the male feathering in both of these photos. The bird(s?) in these photos is a cockerel.

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