Finding the Brahmas harder to gender than our other birds

[ThoseDarnBirdies]

Hey - new to owning chickens, and I've read through a lot of the resources here and elsewhere to learn to identify roosters, but I still have a lot of uncertainty about our Brahmas and was hoping for some help from the community. The brahmas in question all hatched at the very end of March, and we got them from a local breeder.

In the photos, the three birds I thought may be cockerels are the predominately white bird with a few black splotches (Sukuratchā) in the second and fourth photo, the black bird (Genzai) in the fifth and sixth photo, and the silver/orange/red bird (Sake) in the 7th, 9th, and 10th photo. (Edit: I guess the photos got rearranged when posting.) The other birds in the photos are the ones I didn't think were cockerels, and are included in case I've gotten those wrong. Thanks for the help!

If more photos are needed of a particular bird, let me know and I'll get on taking them right away.

 

[Egg Snatcher]

3 Roos 1hen

 

[Fluffy Lambs]

Hey - new to owning chickens, and I've read through a lot of the resources here and elsewhere to learn to identify roosters, but I still have a lot of uncertainty about our Brahmas and was hoping for some help from the community. The brahmas in question all hatched at the very end of March, and we got them from a local breeder.

In the photos, the three birds I thought may be cockerels are the predominately white bird with a few black splotches (Sukuratchā) in the second and fourth photo, the black bird (Genzai) in the fifth and sixth photo, and the silver/orange/red bird (Sake) in the 7th, 9th, and 10th photo. The other birds in the photos are the ones I didn't think were cockerels, and are included in case I've gotten those wrong. Thanks for the help!

If more photos are needed of a particular bird, let me know and I'll get on taking them right away.

Screenshotted and circled the cockerels you have pretty birds!

 

[ThoseDarnBirdies]

Thanks! Happy to have confirmation.

 

[JedJackson]

The blue one with orange shoulders is also a cockerel.

 

[ThoseDarnBirdies]

The blue one with orange shoulders is also a cockerel.

This one?

 

[GravityWaves]

I agree with the others here about your cockerels. I just wanted to add that the Blue Partridge (Sake-red shoulders) and the Dark (Genzai-black) are color-specific for males and females when they start growing in their adult feathers. The fourth picture has a female of each color-Dark on the left, Blue Partridge on the right. You can tell the differences right away when you look at the male and female.

 

[GravityWaves]

This one?

That is a pullet. See how it's getting the partridge pattern on the feathers right below the neck? Your male above will not look like that.

 

[JedJackson]

This one?

No that is a female. I meant the bird in the 2nd, 3rd and 5th photos. The black one with a white neck is also male, and so is the mostly white one with some spots of other colors. Sorry for the confusion!

 

[Rhodebar Lover]

Here are the cockerels. The varieties you appear to have are a blue silver orange pullet, a dark pullet and cockerel, a blue partridge pullet and cockerel, and a splash cockerel!