Four wk old chick, thinking rooster. Would appreciate your thoughts.

That should do for now. Lol.... While you are looking do any of the others appear to be showing any characteristics of Roo's?. The small yellow mohawk one & small brown one were raising their heads high and going head to head fighting today if this is any indicator?
 
Would really help if you showed pics of that one with its clutch-mates for comparison. A lot of development is retarded or sped up according to genetics, feed, environment, etc. I've had chicks fully feathered and trying to mate at six weeks and others that were six months old before they even started to show gender specific traits. Some chicks I could tell were males even before they had fully hatched.

Is it a bantam? The feet are pretty small. If not a banty I'd think male but I'd need to know more of its genetic line so I would know if it's just that type. Does it stand and act like a rooster? Not that a lot of hens don't! 
 
Cute chicks. I think it may be a male, just based on the pinkness of the comb, but its feet are a bit small for a male, but then again I don't know much about purebreds. Or whatever breed that is. Also the wing feathers seem to be following a male pattern of development, as in the primaries aren't sticking out from behind the secondaries or coverts or whatever they are... But that varies between breeds too. But compared to the others it looks possibly male.

Also the dark one with a golden head has typical male carriage and it's got its little tail as upright and fanned out as possible, I think that might be a roo too. Not 100% sure of course, and some girls act like roos a lot, complete with the fighting. And the mating, sometimes. I had a bunch of Isabrown hens who would always mate with the pekin mix hens, and a dorking welsummer mix who fought seven brother roosters in a row, beat all of them, and then mated with all of them... With her on top. The roos squawked just like hens, but crouched and moved their tail feathers out of the way just like hens, too... And all these sexually confused hens went on to be good mothers, prolific layers, etc. Very strange! Think it was just a testosterone overdose for some reason.
 

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