How many roosters do you see? *Picture Heavy*

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I was given my first flock of chickens this past Sunday. There are various ages, breeds, and sexes. I took a few pictures today and would like to know how many roosters you can spot. I did a head count and think there are 22 chickens total. I'm inexperienced at sexing chickens, but I think I've counted at least five roosters.
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Can someone with a more experienced eye give me some feedback please? And if I'm completely wrong about my guesses please be easy on me. I'm new.
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Picture 1. Very LARGE Australorp hen in the front, correct? With two molting Golden Comet hens in the back?



Picture 2. This black rooster was hard to photograph. He's very people-shy. What breed is he?



Picture 3. I KNOW that this is a rooster. I would just like to know what breed he is. He has fuzzy legs. Oh, and he's missing his right eye. Apparently someone pecked it out.
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Picture 4.The Leghorns have me REALLY confused. Roosters, or hens??



Picture 5.This is a Barred Rock rooster (front) and hen (back) correct? (With my golden retriever in the far back!
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) There is another rooster-hen(?) pair that look identical to these two.



Picture 6. Group Shot (Some are missing. They all scatter when I point the camera at them.
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I think that "very large" australorp may be a jersey giant...what color ar the bottoms of its feet? Do you know? The black roo may be a barnyard mix, the fuzzy footed reminds me of a sexlink, the bareds look like br and cuckoo marans maybe? But I thought cuckoo marans had white legs...I'm not good w barred breeds. Both look like hens to me, but upclose pics would help. I think the leghorns are girls.
 
Pic 1: Australorp hen and two gold comet hens

Pic 2 rooster looks birchen (that's a color) - it's possible he's a Marans, but I'd think unlikely with the grab-bag assortment. Barred in background is female, white is a leghorn roo, I'm guessing that's boy #2's rear, and the butt in the forefront is female.

Pic 3 may be a gold comet rooster (gold comet is a sex-linked mutt), possibly with cochin in the mix or brahma if he's really huge.

Pic 4 looks like your leghorn hens. Keep an eye out for the long, curving tail feathers like you see in pic #2.

The barred girls I see in Pic 5 are female. Some may be mixes with something else; the brighter ones have better bloodlines. If their combs are different, the ones with straight combs are rocks and the pea combs are dominiques.

Pic 6: lots of hens and a couple roos. Can't tell gender on the specked sussex.
 
I didn't even think about Jersey Giants. The lady told me they were Australorps so I took her for her word. That black hen is HUGE though. I mean, absolutely BEAST-like. She's the biggest in the bunch I think. There were two, but the other got away when we were loading them and we never found her.
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Picture 7. Breed? Sex?


Picture 8. I can't even guess what breed this is.


Picture 9. Speckled Sussexs
 
If that is a pea comb on #8, my guess would be EE (even though it has yellow legs instead of green). Looks like you are right on #9 and I have no idea what #7 is.

I didn't even think about Jersey Giants. The lady told me they were Australorps so I took her for her word. That black hen is HUGE though. I mean, absolutely BEAST-like. She's the biggest in the bunch I think. There were two, but the other got away when we were loading them and we never found her.
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Picture 7. Breed? Sex?


Picture 8. I can't even guess what breed this is.


Picture 9. Speckled Sussexs
 
2 3 roos. The black on, the white one, and the one thats in picture 3. the white one is a leghorn, other 2 are mixed.
7 mixed hen
9 look like hens
 
Nope, I didn't know. Thanks for the heads up! I got my first egg yesterday, but it was just a plain old white one (from one of the Leghorns I'm guessing).
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*LOL*

Once the roosters are gone, the hens are getting split up between myself, my father-in-law, and a friend from church. I'm going to have to decide which ones I want to keep. I honestly can't wait until the majority are gone. I've learned in three days that I need:

  • more roosts so that hopefully they'll stop sleeping in and on the nest boxes
  • A larger water bowl that won't tip over
  • A gate for direct access to the run
  • Netting for the top of the run (learned that after two chickens flew out and ran away)
 

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