Confirmation these are Cockerels 11.5 wks

[C Siena]

Can't hurt checking! Sometimes it seems your own chickens can be harder to gender anyways. Congrats on your new Friend Badge!

Thank you. What a nice surprise this morning! I have a Badge!

 

[redinator]

Can't hurt checking! Sometimes it seems your own chickens can be harder to gender anyways. Congrats on your new Friend Badge!

I think it's mostly denial. Is hard to believe that the sweetest in the bunch is a cockerel and the nasty nippy one is a dominant pullet.

 

[C Siena]

Question:

Are they culling the cockerels? Because, while quarantine is a pain, can you ask them that when, inevitably, another Cockerel shows himself, that if any hens from the first patch become apparent, you can swap back?


I just culled three cockerels. I believe two had crowed and one's physical characteristics were even more upright and obvious than the crowing ones.

Come to find out, the one who looked the most like a rooster didn't have any testes

I went through her torso and offal several times, and even one of the cockerels who had tiny testes (think a small oval the size of two long grains of rice side by side), they were still obvious.


Gravy was kind of aloof so she wouldn't have been an automatic save, but she was pretty so I would have saved her for a little while and waited for more cockerels to crow.


However, now my husband doesn't get to say which ones are roosters and can be culled until they crow. Sorry, Gravy.

Dag, You made my mind start to over think...so I went back outside to look and take more pictures.

 

[Rhodebar Lover]

Both are 100% cockerels

 

[C Siena]

Both are 100% cockerels

I understand. I look at the one that is most likely from an ISA hen and he looks just like them. Our 3 ISA hens have a somewhat large single comb...but not sure they had a noticeable comb at 4 weeks as we purchased/traded for them when they were 6 & 10 months.

Thanks, it's good to receive more confirmation.