hen or roo?

[gatorshark75]

o and its 29 weeks, but how can u all tell its a rooster??

what kind of hens do you have is the first question i need to ask

 

[dave3003102]

Definitely a 3 month old cockerel...

 

[gatorshark75]

o and its 29 weeks, but how can u all tell its a rooster??

just look at him he has the high comb and large wattles and a long tail the hens have short tails low combs and tiny wattles if any at all

 

[JBJ Poultry]

Appears to be a rooster

 

[pmcatnip]

how can u guys tell? its just when i posted the question when she was younger, 18 weeks, i was told a hen!! i guess this will be my first (and hopefully only) mixup

Roos generally have bigger combs and wattles and longer tails. Those large wattles and that long-ish tail in your photo made me immediately think rooster. It gets easier to tell the difference the more time you spend watching your chickens.

If you get a roo in your batch of chicks it helps to watch them growing up so you can see the differences developing.

In my first batch of storebought chicks I got one surprise rooster and I suspected that "she" was a "he" at about 4 weeks old because his coloring and comb were different than the others. He is now a proud papa and with his batch of chicks, hatched at home by the broodies, I could tell which babies were roos at around 5 weeks. (Some breeds you can tell on Day 1 by color/feather sexing/etc but not all.) All my young roos have started crowing and fighting at about 8 weeks old too (they worked it out, we now have 5 roosters and no fighting).

 

[Beakz]

He's actually 29 weeks and I hav a brahma, 2 rir's an Easter egger and a silkie

 

[gatorshark75]

He's actually 29 weeks and I hav a brahma, 2 rir's an Easter egger and a silkie

he would probably better for the hens hes smaller and young the choice is yours to cull one or the other roosters id keep the young one and cull the older one plus the barred rock will make good laying chicks

 

[Beakz]

So I hav him and a red sex link too who fight (sex link attacks, rock runs away) which do I keep tips?? Fr

 

[Beakz]

Sorry dumb question but what is culling

 

[Feathersnerd]

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Wow how did you manage that.(about the 5 rosters no crowing).