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chrissynemetz said:
Hi and welcome to BYC! :frow
Can you post a full body picture of the one you're worried about? Maybe it's just a fast developing pullet? :fl
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All of these are within the last week. There aren’t any good body ones over the last week. I plan to take full pics on Monday, they’ll be 10 weeks old then. This one had a bright red crest at 6 weeks. They looked identical at arrival! Buff Orpington are Supposed to be autosexing, so I keep hoping I’m wrong, but he’s just so different than the other one!
 

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DobieLover said:
Hello and welcome to BYC! :frow Glad you joined.
Sorry you ended up with a cockerel. Vent sexing is usually only 90% guaranteed.
I would try really hard to find someone to take him that does not already have a resident rooster. They very rarely take to another male showing up and going after THEIR girls.
I tried to raise a junior rooster in the flock and bought him as a chick. Things went fine when Jr was still a cockerel. But once he got older, he had enough of being run off the ladies and started challenging Sr. One day, Sr was napping outside near his girls and Jr jumped him and bloodied him up pretty good. Jr still came out of that fight on the short end of the stick and took the beating of his life. They fought every time they were put back in the pen together.
Jr now lives as a breeder rooster far away from Sr.
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I'm quite worried about that, honestly! There are 11 females in the other pen, after we lost ten (10!!! That was a horror.) to raccoons over the summer. The pen is quite massive, and it would be nice to have a second defender in there, but I really worry about the ability of the 1 year old rooster to deal with another once maturity hits. Given, the Buff is likely to be larger than the Easter Egger Rooster, but the EE will be the older establish male.

On the flip side, around here he's quite likely to end up in a stew pot otherwise. I'm not sure how to give him the best chances. I've crossed my fingers hard that he was really a she, comparing photos for hours, but as of this week I really just have to give up that hope. That's a boy there.
 

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