Help! Do I have a rooster?

[crusting]

I have 2 older hens (2 years old) and 2 7 week old chicks. I've been trying to integrate them, and the 7 week olds have been in a smaller cage inside the run for about 2 weeks now. They are sleeping in the coop at night and then I shoo them out at dawn into the run in their cage. I was going to start letting them out of the cage with hiding places this week or next. However, this morning when I shooed them out of the coop into the run, one of them made a funny noise. Uh oh, could this be a rooster crowing? How would I tell? Can they do that at 7 weeks?

The one that did it is the dominant one of the two chicks. The person I bought it from said it is a white-colored easter-egger. It looks very similar to my other chick, which is a buff orpington...only it's a little smaller in size and of course it has white feathers.

Please help me figure this out! I really am hoping it's not a rooster because I would have to find a home for it and I would also be stuck introducing a single chick to the older hens.

Thank you!!!

 

[bustermommy]

You could post pics and let people see. You'd probably get lots of opinions.

My roo's first crows sounded like a strangled cat.

 

[Amyable]

Get a good close-up pic of the comb, that's be best indicator on EE's.

 

[crusting]

Here are some photos -- I hope they're close enough to tell. Sorry, i don't know how to post a photo, but here are links to 3 photos:
https://docs.google.com/leaf?id=0B5...NThlOC00ODgwLTlmYzQtZWFmYmNhMzRiNDU4&hl=en_US
https://docs.google.com/leaf?id=0B5...ZWExNi00NmUxLTg0ZTYtZjcyMGIxZjVjNGMw&hl=en_US
https://docs.google.com/leaf?id=0B5...MTY1Ny00MWI4LTlhYTAtYzBkOTM1NDA2OTRh&hl=en_US

 

[crusting]

Sorry, now I see that last pic is blurry. S/he never stops moving!
I can take more if those first two aren't good enough to tell.

 

[Amyable]

Looks like there are 3 rows of 'peas' in that comb, and it's fairly large for a 7-wk chick. It might be a roo.

BUT EE's are tricky, so wait til you hear a crow.

 

[crusting]

Thanks Amyable. I thought I heard a couple of crows this morning, which is what led me to post about this. It definitely made some strange sounds....but how do I know if those sounds are crows?

 

[grimreaper]

At this time i am not sure by the pictures.

 

[tinychicky]

cockerel. comb's too red for a seven week pullet