Getting ready to butcher some crowing chickens. Need to be sure!

Moriaheva

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Oct 22, 2017
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We live in the suburbs and can't have anything crowing. We have had some crowing, some fighting and very rooster like looks on 8 of our chickens. They are vacationing in the country (at my friend's house) while we figure out for sure whether they are he's or she's.

Please help!
We have 3 Blue Laced Red Wyandottes-almost positive these are roosters
2 Welsummers almost positive these are roosters.
1 Australorp
1 Speckled Sussex
1 Dominic
They are 18 weeks

We dearly love these birds and have hand raised them, but can't have roosters and would rather eat them have them be eaten by another family or treated badly in a home that didn't love them.

Please help us know for sure so we don't accidentally butcher anyone.
 

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Darn, my thoughts as well. The single ones I wasn't so sure on as those didn't exhibit rooster behavior until very recently. What's the giveaway on the Dominic, speckled Sussex and australorp? Those were trickier for me. They absolutely starting sparring this week, but I heard no verified crows from them. The australorp was quite aggressive, however.
 
Darn, my thoughts as well. The single ones I wasn't so sure on as those didn't exhibit rooster behavior until very recently. What's the giveaway on the Dominic, speckled Sussex and australorp? Those were trickier for me. They absolutely starting sparring this week, but I heard no verified crows from them. The australorp was quite aggressive, however.
All Roosters, very sorry..

Each one has very large combs, and some you can see the h.ackles(feathers near tail base).
Also, The Domic's are fairly easy to tell, they normally get huge combs—fast.
 
Darn, my thoughts as well. The single ones I wasn't so sure on as those didn't exhibit rooster behavior until very recently. What's the giveaway on the Dominic, speckled Sussex and australorp? Those were trickier for me. They absolutely starting sparring this week, but I heard no verified crows from them. The australorp was quite aggressive, however.
Hackle feathers are very prominent on all of them. There are other clues, but that's probably the quickest way to tell.
 
Darn, my thoughts as well. The single ones I wasn't so sure on as those didn't exhibit rooster behavior until very recently. What's the giveaway on the Dominic, speckled Sussex and australorp? Those were trickier for me. They absolutely starting sparring this week, but I heard no verified crows from them. The australorp was quite aggressive, however.
Male specific saddle feathers. Take a good look at the feathering on the backs. Do you see those long, thin, pointed feathers? Do you see how all the birds pictured have that same sort of feathering? Those feathers are specific to males. The Dominique has the additional, male specific trait, of having two copies of the barring gene.
 

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