Blue Copper Marans Gender

[nmunroe]

These are my 3 blue copper marans chicks, they are between 3 & 4 weeks old. I have come to the conclusion that Nugget (front in center in the top pic and with his head turned in the second pic) is clearly a rooster. I am wondering about the other two? **Don’t worry they are our pets, Nugget will not become a Nugget! **

 

[Sixandahalfacres]

Nugget is definitely a roo, but the other two could be as well. I currently have 7 splash Marans who are 4-5 weeks old and the females have tiny very pale combs. These three have quite large, pink combs for quite young. I may be wrong, hopefully others will chime in.

 

[Johnny17]

You are so unlucky, all are roosters

 

[Frazzemrat1]

all are cockerels.
they won't be roosters until their a year old.

 

[nmunroe]

Thanks for the input everyone!
I’m new to chickens, so I don’t know all the terms. From what I’ve heard, if we kept them away from hens when they get older, they would get along together? That is assuming we got any pullets out of the other 3 chicks we have! lol
They are Orpingtons and are still yellow and fluffy.

 

[Johnny17]

all are cockerels.
they won't be roosters until their a year old.

Ι mentioned the sex dude

 

[nmunroe]

Ι mentioned the sex dude

Thanks for that Johnny17. I didn’t know cockerel was the term for a young rooster. But I had been told the pullet was a young hen. I wasnt asking the question again.. Everyone has convinced me that these are all cockerels.
My follow up question was, could I keep the males together if I didn’t have females around? My kids are attached to them, so I didn’t want to have to re-home them.

 

[Johnny17]

Thanks for that Johnny17. I didn’t know cockerel was the term for a young rooster. But I had been told the pullet was a young hen. I wasnt asking the question again.. Everyone has convinced me that these are all cockerels.
My follow up question was, could I keep the males together if I didn’t have females around? My kids are attached to them, so I didn’t want to have to re-home them.

When they grown up even more it's 80% sure that they attack it's other for the leading position. The best way is to rehome 2 of them. You have to explain to your children that this must be done otherwise the birds will not be happy and can hurt its other very badly.

 

[Sixandahalfacres]

Lots of people have roosters living together in a bachelor pad. Taking out the equation of females seems to work - I haven’t tried it but especially raising them together it might work if you really wanted to keep them. They might crow a lot though - more than one rooster seems to set off others and often there can be crowing matches. I had two roosters once at the same time - they grew up together and were both with my flock of about 30 hens. One rooster would crow every 10 seconds all. day. long.

The other never crowed at all. We rehomed one and the other one only crowed a normal amount after that.