Help! Do I have 6 roosters

[Mylied]

They red splotchy color on the wings is another indicator most of the time.

 

[Tam86]

Yes I think you're right. She got me a good one I did just take her word for it without doing any research. The barred one is the one that has started crowing . I do have only 1 photo which is terrible quality

. They are 5-7 weeks here

 

[Mylied]

Sorry. Some people are jerks. I hope you have better luck next time.

 

[MartinsPoultry]

They all do look like cockerels specially the barred one.

I have tons of roosters and my surrounding neighbors are total saints. 5:30 on the button the rooster symphony begins.
6 in camp one way, 3 in youngins camp, and 4 in main flock along with turkey toms, and tons of guinea cockerels.

 

[Gray Farms]

All cockerels

 

[ChicKat]

Hi there. I'm new to this but roughly 3 months ago I bought 7 mixed breed 5-7 week old chicks from a lady who told me they were pullets. ....

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There are chicken sellers who try to dump cockerels. IMO this behavior is really low.

Someone I know of here in town had the same experience. She was told they were all pullets and they were all cockerels.

One thing for you to consider is getting sex-linked or autosexing breed next time you get chickens. Depending upon your chicken needs, you could get golden comets, or black sexlinks and have nice chickens and get a LOT of eggs. There are also Legbars, and the new lavender-barred variety that CJ Waldon has that are both beautiful and autosexing. I have them too and they are wonderful birds. (Mine are different from CJ's because I've bred the crest out of mine.) - My flock had a contagious virus though, so I've closed my flock, but I will be hatching again this spring. -- With sex-linked or autosexing...you know at hatch time. I almost think that what the lady did was criminal - and if she wanted to redeem herself she would refund your purchase price and the cost of feed over the months you have had them. (And that doesn't give you back your time, your effort and the emotional investment you have put into your chickens.)----

Don't give up on raising your own chickens just because you encountered a low-life -- She either should have said she doesn't know, or told you directly that they were cockerels.

An experienced chicken person should know by the age that you bought yours which of their chicks are which sex by the age that you bought them IMO. My advice is never to purchase from that seller again --and warn your friends.

 

[Crazy for Chickens!]

I think they are all cockerels. Looks like the last one is a Cream Crested Legbar!
I would definitely try to contact the seller and tell them you want refunded. Maybe they will take the birds back as well. If not, I would put warnings up on FB, telling people not to buy from this person, and tell your story,

 

[Tam86]

Yes it is quite disappointing. Being hand raised they are such friendly quiet boys whom I have grown quite fond of so I could never cull them. But I also can't keep them all as they eat like dinosaurs and they will never produce those lovely eggs I was after ...
I have tried to contact the lady who sold me the chicks. I sent her a nice message just asking if I could return the pullets turn cockerels in exchange for some hens with a please and a thank you. After receiving no reply I have tried to call a few times and no answer

 

[mrsdee]

I think they're all cockerel except the solid white one. Hard to tell with the hackle feathers since they're all the same color. I'd take that one and compare to others based on feathers and see. Looked like a pullet to me especially since leghorn mixed pullets can have large combs and wattles.

 

[debid]

The white one is the only one that I can't say for certain from the pictures but given the development of the comb/wattles, I'm very suspicious of "her". The rest are most definitely cockerels as they have male-specific coloring. And yes, I strongly suspect the seller knew they were offloading a bunch of unwanted cockerels on a newbie and there is no way you're getting a call back. I'm sad that this is your first experience in chickens, it's a horrible way to start.

My suggestion would be to try and re-home these guys. After that, get your chicks from a feed store selling pullets from a hatchery.