I think my hens are roosters!

crazychick26201

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Can anyone tell if one or more of my small flock of 10 week pulleys are roosters? They are flying at each other with feathers ruffled. Don't know if this is pecking order behavior or a rooster trying to establish dominance. I am very new to raising chickens. Here are images of my 4 "hens."
This is Amelia Chickenheart
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This is Buffy
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This is Henrietta
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This is Miss Roo (this one has very large pink legs and feet)
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They sure look like hens to me. My hens fought like crazy the first year of their life.
 
Are these Buff Orpingtons? I have 2 that are almost 9 weeks old. The larger of the 2 now has hackle feathers and the comb is redder than the other. I'm very new at this but from all the reading I've done, the 3rd one looks likes a cockerel like mine. Check the feathers around the bottom of the neck. If they are pointy instead of round, it's supposed to be a male.
 
Well, I guess I wouldn't mind too much if I had ONE rooster, but I will have a major problem if I have more than one! The last two pics are of my biggest ones. The last one, Miss Roo is very red around the face and eyes, but the comb and wattles are the same size as the others.
 
Look like hens, my hens do that to each other when establishing a pecking order. My broody hens with babies do it all the time when then are telling the other chickens to get the heck away from her babies or if she is saying this is were we are sleeping find some were else.
 

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