Help! Do I have a Rooster!?

[Chickymama0505]

thanks everyone so much for your help and in put!.

 

[kwhites634]

Definitely a cockerel.

BUBBLES!!

 

[4 ever Orpington]

I am a new chicken mama this spring. I have 3 easter eggers and 3 Rhode Island Reds. One of the RIR my husband and I think might be a rooster. He/she has a big dark tail but a small comb. How do I know for sure its a male or not?. We thought we heard him/her crow but not sure, as they are only 12 weeks old. Please help!, we wanted the chickens for the eggs, not really more babies!. Isnt there a claw or something on the back of the foot the males have? Thanks in advance!.

Looks like a young cockerel to me.

 

[kwhites634]

Definitely a cockerel.

I've seen hens with combs so large they can't stand up, if that's what you're keying on.

 

[4 ever Orpington]

BUBBLES!!

 

[kwhites634]

yeah I thought so too. So how do I prevent baby chicks?. How do I keep them seperate?

Birth control?
Build another run?
Rehome him?

 

[kwhites634]

We go waaay back.

 

[BantyChooks]

BUBBLES!!

Hey whites I'm not dead, just distracted.

I've seen hens with combs so large they can't stand up, if that's what you're keying on.

Yeah, but if you've ever seen a hen with a comb so large it can't stand up, pointy hackles/saddles, and the leggy look of a cockerel just coming into its own, I'll pay you in gold.

yeah I thought so too. So how do I prevent baby chicks?. How do I keep them seperate?

Just don't let the hens go broody and you're fine.

 

[Monday's momma]

I would say the dark tail feathers developing point to roo

 

[kwhites634]

Hey whites I'm not dead, just distracted.

Hey whites I'm not dead, just distracted.

I figured that. Lots of us in the same boat, I guess; not a lot going on at "home" these days, even in WV's pond.