Hen or Rooster?

[Peppercorngal]

Brahma boys mature very slowly, much later than the girls. I think you may be right about HIM! I have never encountered a bully brahma though, they are pretty nice.

 

[PlayTheGame]

pullet or roo different chicks. A man told me you can tell by the comb as early as 4 weeks so I did some research. From what I am reading, if there are 3 rows of peas it is a roo, one set is pullet. If this is true, out of the 4 pullets I bought 3 of them are roos. Is any one familiar with this method?

 

[PlayTheGame]

My large chick is jumping on all the other chicks and pecks them. They spend their day trying to get away from the chick. They are all the same age, about 5 or 6 weeks. The others are calm. I have raised many chicks ( all pullets ) Never had this issue. Is she a he?

 

[Peppercorngal]

My large chick is jumping on all the other chicks and pecks them. They spend their day trying to get away from the chick. They are all the same age, about 5 or 6 weeks. The others are calm. I have raised many chicks ( all pullets ) Never had this issue. Is she a he?

It looks like you have them in a small bird cage. That is not enough room for them, lack of space is one reason pecking each other occurs. Even chicks need some space! My month old chicks are running around in a 30 x 20 foot run with some 17 day old chicks already!

 

[PlayTheGame]

That is the cage I put them in to clean out their pen and it is easier to take pictures of them in there. It is a ferret cage.lol They have a 3 foot high by 5 foot long by 2 foot wide brooder. They do not have all their feathers yet and all my chickens are free range with a 12x12 hen house that they go into at night so until they are large enough to go into the small run which is a 30 x 30 fenced in yard I use to keep my emus in when they were young they will be in the 3 x 5 brooder and taken outside when it is nice out

 

[Peppercorngal]

That is the cage I put them in to clean out their pen and it is easier to take pictures of them in there. It is a ferret cage.lol They have a 3 foot high by 5 foot long by 2 foot wide brooder. They do not have all their feathers yet and all my chickens are free range with a 12x12 hen house that they go into at night so until they are large enough to go into the small run which is a 30 x 30 fenced in yard I use to keep my emus in when they were young they will be in the 3 x 5 brooder and taken outside when it is nice out

That sounds much better. Chicks and Chickens do need space to be "happy".