Chick behavior - playing or fighting?

[Dinosaur Village Keeper]

Chicks are almost 4 weeks old but the past couple of weeks I noticed several of them crouch down low and point their beaks at each other. They do that for up to a minute and then bump chests and bounce all over the place. My other chicks that did that were roosters. Sadly 3 or 4 ended up roosters. Now I have 5 of 7 of the new babies doing it so I’m thinking I have 5 little cockerels. When I had 6 sexed pullet babies, they never once did that. Is it pretty likely I have 5 males? I have noticed 2 of them that do it are already getting red combs. The hens seem to do a face off, but they don’t do the long low crouching dance.

 

[sourland]

In my experience it is typical play fighting of both pullets and cockerels.