Breeding

Maybe.

What other males do you have?
And what color are the hens?
Descriptions can work, photos are even better.
 

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Do you think I will be able to tell his chicks apart from my other roos?

Wow, you have quite a collection of roosters!

When trying to sort out chicks, I think you can be pretty sure of these:
--chicks with a crest on top of their head have a crested parent. From not-crested mothers, that means a crested father.

--chicks with feathered legs must have a feather-legged parent. From clean legged mothers, that means a feather-legged father.

--Some of the crested roosters may have V combs. Any chicks with a V comb or even a comb like a Buttercup has, would have a v-comb father.

--From the Barred Rock hens, any chicks with muff/beard have a father with muff/beard. (Chicks from a bearded mother can have a beard even when the father does not.)

Feather colors get more complicated, partly because you have so many options on both sides.

--The Barred Rock hens should give you sexlinked chicks, definitely with your preferred rooster and I think with any of the other roosters as well. Chicks with white barring would be males, chicks with no white barring would be females. If any chick from a Barred Rock is all white, then your preferred rooster is not the father, and of course you can't tell if a white chick has white barring.

--From the Ameraucana hens, any chicks that grow up all black probably have the all-black rooster as their father.

Unfortunately, that leaves quite a few possible chicks that you can't tell the father for sure.
But even recognizing some of the possible chicks can help figure out whether the BCM rooster sired all of the chicks, some of the chicks, or none of the chicks.
 
With that many males being able to breed them I'd say wait at least three weeks. Four is the upward limit I've waited to be sure. I have a few eggs set right now that I went too early on, but mostly it was a fertility test. I probably won't be able to use any of them.
 

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