Effing Roosters🙄

[LLvida]

Good morning friends! I have not posted in several months, after our incredibly stressful incubation and sad hatchling deaths. Out of the 32 eggs I hatched, eight survived. Out of these eight, I think almost all of them are roosters. We are of course devastated. Here are the pictures of the 4 that are possibly hens. I think the yellow ones are hens, I think the black one may be a hen, I think the multicolor black one may be a rooster. There are four obvious roosters and they are crowing, but perhaps the not obvious roosters are just too low in the pecking order? No obvious spurs, and these are mixed breed so it’s hard to tell if the exciting tail on the multicolored black is a rooster tail, or just a combo. Every seems to have slightly pointy neck feathers. Any help would be great – I am trying to find someone who will process the roosters so that at least I can get some chicken stock out of these months of stress. And I need to find some laying hens because that was the whole point of this adventure! We live in Portland so we cannot keep any roosters even though “Favorite” is our favorite chicken Thank you for your help!

 

[Tookie]

How old? They all look like pullets!

 

[LLvida]

That would be so exciting. They are 3.5 months old. Much smaller than the 4 obvious rooster- man those dudes grew huge quickly!

 

[Tookie]

That would be so exciting. They are 3.5 months old. Much smaller than the 4 obvious rooster- man those dudes grew huge quickly!

They are all pullets! I don't think I'm seeing any male specific feathering, and they're comb and wattles would be much bigger too.

 

[FattySmough]

They all look like ladies to me.

 

[LLvida]

But this one is a rooster right?

 

[Tookie]

But this one is a rooster right?

Yes, that's a cockerel.

 

[Aunt Angus]

So sorry about your hatchling losses! But at least these 4 are pullets. They are very pretty! I love the looks of #4!

 

[Iluveggers]

Do you have a pic of the grey one in the second pic behind the red pullet?

 

[LLvida]

Do you have a pic of the grey one in the second pic behind the red pullet?

That gray one is a picture of the black one from the third picture in the light. It is very pretty, so much smaller than a Roosters, but what do you think?