Help with five month old EEs - roos or hens?

[MissCluck]

It's been amazing with these Easter Eggers. They were Ebay-bought eggs and are definately a mutt-mix. One fellow, Lyle, has been crowing since he was three weeks old and has a huge comb. He's definately a mutt.

There are two very small, feminine hens with tiny combs. There are others with various combs and feathers all over the place.

I'm trying to determine the sex of my two big favorites. Neither one has crowed. "Dickens" is the brown one and I'm sure it's a roo? Notice I put a ??? Driving me nuts! The other is the white/grey with the reddish neck feathers. I've been pretty sure this one is a roo but the tail set is higher and it's not crowed. I watch these two around my little bantam roo and he doesn't pick on them, they exhibit no rooster tendencies so far.

The other dark roos didn't crow until just last week!

Below is Lyle the strange mix of something and on his left the one chicken that I'd love to have be a hen. It was raining so everyone looks a bit droopy.

Below are the two pretty chickens. The one on the right is definately a roo. Has crowed. The one to the left again is big and looks roo-ish but no crow and so rooster tendencies...yet.

Here is the questionable chicken again:

Below is the chicken I call "Dickens". I've assumed this bird is a roo but it hasn't crowed and isn't acting roosterish either.

And below is Dickens and ? in their "up periscope" position. From this you'd say they were both roos...wouldn't you?

I need to get another photo of the ? bird from behind. Does anyone have any links to the tail stance that might help me determine sex?

The combs on these birds are all over the place so I'm not going by them. I've got dark feathered roos in this bunch that have combs smaller than the big birds.

 

[Goose and Fig]

The lighter one is definately a roo- see the pointy feathers in front of the tail that fall to the sides? I can't tell on the red one because of the lighting- but looks like a roo as well. Lots of times if you have one dominant roo, the other guys will keep quiet.

 

[seminolewind]

Look like all boys to me- they all look like they have the long skinny saddle feathers.

 

[MissCluck]

Here are a few more photos taken today. I think that you must be correct... I was hoping, hoping they were somehow hens...at least the one whitish one...

It's just the way this chicken moves that makes me think hen.....

 

[noitulover]

every single chicken in there is a rooster...

besides the long, curled tail feathers, they have pointed hackle and saddle feathers... the sure sign of a rooster.

 

[ve]

Sorry all roosters

 

[okiehen]

All roosters

 

[maizie]

I am going to have veer a little and say Trannies. Rooster but dressed like gals!!

 

[Illia]

They're ALL cockerels. These are all common EE colors, too. Very very pretty EE's though. They just look funky now because of young age.

 

[HorseFeatherz NV]

As others have stated, roos.

If you look at their neck feathers and the feathers right in front of their tail (along their back, between the wing-tip area) and compare those feathers with your known hens. These two areas are the hackle and saddle feathers. What you will see on roos (starting between 3-4 months on my birds) is the feathers in these two areas tend to get longer, thinner and pointy. The feathers in these areas sometimes remind me of hair - long and flowing. Often the hackle feathers will grow down over the shoulder of the wing and saddle feathers will grow longer and sometimes cover the wing tips.