Do I have a rooster?

I cannot tell you if "she" is a rooster or not - but know this. If there are only hens in a flock, sometimes the alpha female will crow. This doesnt neccesarily mean "she" is a "he". If they were younger, i could tell you how to sex them. Usually, you can tell a noticable difference in the waddles about a moth after birth (or as far as my experience has gone, that has been true)

 

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If you can show pictures that would help us help you. We love pictures!

With my roosters I noticed that their combs and wattles grew much more quickly then the hens. They of course are also much bigger. I also noticed that their stance was more straight up and down and they had thicker legs then the hens.

My roosters started to crow at about 15 or 16 weeks. It doesn't sound like crowing, more like their in pain. It is very funny to watch. They will probably start mating with your hens very soon. My roosters started about 16 weeks or so. I think that when they start mating they are fertile. But, my roosters started mating with my hens about 3 or so weeks before we got our first eggs.

Again, welcome to BYC! Hope this helps!

 

Welcome to the insanity! LOL
Pictures are a great help when trying to figure out who's a he and who's a her...
Some breeds do start to crow really early. My Leghorn cockerel Jerry started around 6 weeks.

 

Pics would be a great help and we could help you with the breeds as well.

Did they have feathers when you got them at Easter? Or just a ball of puff?

 

Your 'brown' chicken looks like a Rhode Island Red ROOSTER.

Your whitish chicken looks like an Easter Egger hen.... or perhaps a Salmon Faverolle... I'd have to see the legs.

You could always have dinner using the rooster!

 

Hmm... that brown one looks awfully roo-ish to me...unless it is VERY much older than the others.

If we could get a full side view that would help be definitive - roos have longer tail feathers, generally.

Having a roo just means that the eggs your girls lay will more than likely be fertile. The hens won't sit on them or hatch them out though unless 1) you stop collecting the eggs so a pile builds up, and 2) they actually decide to go 'broody', which means they stop laying and decide to sit on the eggs to hatch them out.

Most breeds of chickens have been selectively bred NOT to go broody, so you may or may not have a problem. I'm sure someone else can come along more familiar with the breeds you have that can tell you if they are a 'broody' breed or not.

Also, it doesn't matter one bit if you even HAVE a roo or not -a hen goes broody with or without a rooster - she will do so even if she is sitting on nothing at all - it's purely hormonal.

If you don't want any chance of babies, just collect the eggs as they are laid and refrigerate and/or eat them. There is basically no difference in appearance, taste or anything else in fertile eggs vs non-fertile eggs.