Can anyone tell if we have a Cockeral in this bunch?

[4 Sweet Chicks]

#1 is our light colored EE and the one who I am most curious about. Her tail feathers have darted out pretty far in the last couple of days and she has always been a tad bit bigger that the other EE.



#2 is our Golden Sex Link



#3 is our darker colored EE



#4 is a Black Sex Link who has a very long neck and seems to be quite sparse in the feather/fluff department

All of these chicks are 4 weeks old. We ended up with an EE roo last year so we are hoping for females this time around

 

[CCCCCCCCHICKENS]

I dont really think that any of the look like cockerals, but i cant see #4's comb. #1 i wouldnt think is just a cockeral, becuase of how fast it grows and feathers in. Because I have had a lot of people tell me that cockerals feather in slower than pullets. I have also found this to be true in my past experiences.

 

[Alex15]

They seem like girls thus far. Although woudl probably help if we could see #4's comb!

 

[4 Sweet Chicks]

Does this help?

 

[Alex15]

Yeah, still looking like a girl. Sometimes chicks have crazy head gear going on even at that age. Not to say they are definitely all girls, but thus far, seeming that way! I wouldn't worry too much about the slow feathering thing either. I had a white wyandotte that I swore was a rooster cause she was about 3-4 weeks behind all the other girls on the feathering, but she turned out to be a pretty little hen!

 

[CCCCCCCCHICKENS]

Well feather sexing isnt always accurate, but it is more acurate than not.

 

[4 Sweet Chicks]

Thanks everyone! That helps a lot. Do any of you have advice on when to move these girls outside. I would think that they are ready but with the slow feathering chick, I wonder. What would you do?

 

[Alex15]

I put mine outside at 6 weeks old and I had one like yours (the wyandotte that feathered out soooooo slow!) I had 8 though and everyone else was fully feathered. I was worried about them too and so I started just letting them hang out there during the day and bringing them abck inside for a couple of days, then I left them out inside theie brooder (a cardoard box with 3/4 covered in a sheet as its cold where I am) for a week and THEN I turned a box upside down and shooed them in there at night and it became their nest for about 3 weeks before they started perching.

Heres all 8 cuddled up like they're in their brooder still:

 

[4 Sweet Chicks]

Oh, that's so sweet! Maybe that is what we'll do. We are eventually going to move them into the big coop with the 1 year olds and I was expecting that to be a slow process. This just adds a little extra time but better than losing one to the cold. Thanks.

 

[CCCCCCCCHICKENS]

I moved mine out of their brooder at 4 1/2 weeks into a grow out pen. Not with the older chickens and they didnt even have a heat lamp, but they are hefty chicks.