How reliable a gender indicator is redness of peacomb in Easter Eggers?

[Frazzemrat1]

They would be about eight to ten feet apart that is the edges of the fences from each other, not sure if that's far enough but that's the best I could do?

not sure.

@RoostersAreAwesome thoughts?

 

[Frazzemrat1]

I had the thought that I have outdoor privacy fence fabric that I could put on the side facing where the hens would be? Not sure if that would make a difference either.?

I believe it would

 

[bayareapilot]

Keep us posted

I have an update that just occurred this morning. It was morning and the automatic door opened up, I heard a noise from one of the chicks at first I thought someone was hurt (remember I've only had hens before). Then I saw Sandy standing on the ramp, making the same sound, and I realized it was an attempt at a crow. Now I was holding out the Ray of Hope that Sandy was Sandy female and not Sandy male. The feathers hadn't looked as pointy as Norman who is my confirmed Cockerel, so I was briefly encouraged until today.

Although I have read that pullets will occasionally attempt to Crow like a cockerel - I am now unfortunately thinking and I would simply be holding onto a thread of Hope at that point and that in fact, I now have two cockerels and two pullets.

Okay folks, any ideas? Is there a snowball's chance in hell that the two cockerels we'll get along? Or when they mature will they hurt each other? Something I don't want obviously.

Also any chance that it could be a pullet trying to Crow? I'm really thinking not but you know at this point one gets illogically hopeful.

I got a couple of thoughts that I thought I'd bounce off the group. One, I was wondering if I could put one of the roosters or cockerels, in with my two 10 year old adult hens which are in a separate flock. If that was something to do when would I do it? Would it be better to wait till they get a little bigger cuz right now the rooster are the Cockerel is smaller than my adult hens. The second question if I follow this first approach, would I be better inserting him into the roosting area in the dark I'll let the adult hands meet him in the morning when they all woke up together? Or would doing the latter just be a bad idea, all around..

The second thought I had would be to remove both cockrells and put them in a separate pen with their own coop?

Folks I'm open to suggestions and encouragement

 

[Mylied]

Sandy is definitely a male. Sorry. :-/

 

[bayareapilot]

Sandy is definitely a male. Sorry. :-/

very likely is but as a good friend told me he said just wait around 6 months or so if he lays an egg it's a she if they don't it's a he.

the other part that made me feel a little better as I was going back in some of the BYC archives and looking at some of the gUESSes for male or female and experts got it wrong just as often as they got it right.

Besides around 6 to 8 months it should sort out the hens and the roosters.

I'm just not going to sweat it I'll just wait until things reveal themselves to be what they are, and I'll have a better idea how to sort things out BY THEN

 

[aart]

I'm using text by voice and sometimes it just doesn't get things correct.

Looks pretty good to me.....have seen some atrocious ones.
Curious is you did any editing?

 

[bruceha2000]

I've not had roosters but I would GUESS that the boys will get along fine if there aren't girls to fight over. One will be dominate over the other but no reason to bully him.