cockerals or pullers?

[shadey1976]

My chickens are around 13 weeks now. The eggs were hatched by a daycare and the chicks were given to us at about a week old. I recently caught 2 of the white ones taking turns crowing. The white ones like to pick on 2 of the brown ones. I think 4 white are cockerals and 2 brown are cockerals but I really have no idea and I don't want to get rid of any of them because we (me and the kids) were silly and became attached. However I can not keep that roosters gor many reasons, one being they free range and I'm afraid they will kill each other and attack the kids. I sent photos to the hatchery that the eggs came from and they sent back a very brief response, "you have columbian x and red x and they are all female". I don't think they took the time to look at the photos. I'm hoping one of you will be able to tell me. Are they cockerals?

 

[Kiki]

O man...I am not good at sexing birds but I am pretty sure all of these white ones are male.

 

[Frazzemrat1]

All of the white ones are cockerels, all of the RIRs are pullets.

 

[deepbluesea]

I'm going to say that the white ones are all cockerels and the red ones are all pullets.

 

[ejtrout31]

whites are male

 

[Crazy for Chickens!]

Going by number order.
Cockerel
Pullet
Cockerel
Pullet
Cockerel
Cockerel
Cockerel
Cockerel
Pullet

 

[shadey1976]

oh man that's what I was afraid of. So now what? I wish there was a rooster sanctuary. I'd be gladly pay for someone to keep them as free range roosters.

 

[sourland]

2, 4, and 9 are pullets. The others are cockerels.

 

[Alexandra33]

Agreed....2, 4, and 9 are your only pullets.

~Alex