Do I have any cockerals?

[mamashark2]

We have 9 australorps - as babies, there were several that had attitudes, stood taller than the rest, were slower to develop tail feathers, and had a broken feather pattern on the wings when I pulled the wing feathers out - I assumed based on these observations that 5 of them were males. These were also the smaller birds of the bunch.

Now they are all the same size and I can't decide if my initial observations were wrong or not because I'm having trouble identifying which could be the males. None of them have very large combs, some of them have redder faces than others, but all of the combs are flesh colored. None have significant attitudes - no fighting just a bit of chest bumping and moving on. They are 14 weeks now. The Orpingtons are 12 weeks.

Are there any males in these pictures?

 

[Trish1974]

I would think at 14 weeks any cockerels would have larger, redder combs...but I am no expert. My BA pullets looked just like this when I got them at roughly the same age as yours.

 

[JedJackson]

Very attractive flock you have there. They're all pullets.

 

[chickenmama109]

they all look like pullets

 

[KikiLeigh02]

Do you have a better picture of the one in the second photo? Those tail feathers make me a little suspicious at 12 weeks. All the rest of them look like pullets for sure.

 

[chickenmama109]

the combs would be bigger i would think if they were cocks

 

[Crazy for Chickens!]

I think 1 of the Orps is a boy.

 

[mamashark2]

Do you have a better picture of the one in the second photo? Those tail feathers make me a little suspicious at 12 weeks. All the rest of them look like pullets for sure.

I couldn't get another picture ... I did try but they kept running from me, lol. I guess the bottom line is I may have more girls than I thought... and I wait until I get either crows or eggs.

 

[mamashark2]

I think 1 of the Orps is a boy.

You know, I've been watching one of the orps and wondering about that myself...

 

[keesmom]

All look like pullets to me.