Do I have 3 Roo's?

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My 3 Rhode Island Red's are from a feed store supposedly sexed they are approximately 13 weeks. I can not have roo's so I'm hoping they are just unusual ladies that are very large, I have seen lady's that look like this but I've also seen roo's that look like this so I'm on the fence but I'm thinking it's more wishful thinking I hate to lose them. They are definitely larger than our other 3 girls around the same age. I've got more pictures if that helps, these of course are the more friendly of the chickens and amusing. If they are roo's they are going to make a lovely meal but we will be down to half our flock before anyone even lays a single egg. You can see the one lady in the first picture is a comet and she is the same age as these 3 and definitely a lot smaller. Our 2 Ameracanas are about 2-3 weeks younger,they are about the same size as the comet.




 
RIR is the one breed I did not get, so not very familiar with them, but for 13 weeks they sure do look like roos. (Could you imagine the size of the eggs if those were hens!!!!?)

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Those are definitely roosters. I have a RIR that is 13 weeks and she has no comb/wattles development at all yet. I also see a lot of shiny and pointy feathers developing on yours which also indicate roosters.
 
That's what I feared, I'm going to lose literally half of my chickens - lucky me my friend who has the other 2 from this batch has a roo and a lady and she's agreed to come over and help butcher the boys and trade me her last girl for a frozen coffee, she was planning to order more chicks anyway. Looks like we are going to have some good eatin! Thanks for everyone's input. I didn't mention in the original post at least one of these boys are crowing already and have been for several weeks. We were hoping it was one of those unusual girl issues.
 

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