Identity roosters?

[Overthinker]

Howdy,

I have 11 chickens 17 weeks old.
Barred rocks
Easter eggers
Gold laced and blue laced red wyandottes

At this age is there an easy way to tell if any are roosters?

 

[T-R-O-U-B-L-E]

Yep. It is fine, but I dont know what I would do without mine. I bet you can find one near you. Probably even here on BYC. Where do you live?

 

[azygous]

At 17 weeks, if you have roosters, you will start to hear clumsy attempts to crow, they will be much more colorful and flashy than the pullets, have large, very red combs compared to pullets' smaller pale pink combs, slender saddle feathers hanging off the back and curved sickle feathers beginning to shoot out of the tails.

 

[Overthinker]

Not hearing crows i don't think. But they do make a bunch of soft cute noises.

They all pretty much look like each other, nothing really colorful, but some seem to have blue on the edges of feathers in the right light.

Most the combs are still growing and all look the same, pretty much red though.

Not seeing any sickles or saddle indications.

I'm thinking i have no roosters or maybe they just don't show it yet. Kinda surprised that out of 11 they all female.

I'll try and get a bunch of pics tomorrow

 

[Overthinker]

Darn, maybe they are not showing yet, but i think they are all female

 

[HappyClucker7]

Darn, maybe they are not showing yet, but i think they are all female

I don't see any obvious boys in these pictures.

 

[LadiesAndJane]

Agreed. All the birds pictured appear to be female.

 

[Overthinker]

I was hoping for one rooster. Oh well

I guess it's okay if we don't have one?

 

[LadiesAndJane]

I was hoping for one rooster. Oh well

I guess it's okay if we don't have one?

Unless you’re planning on raising chicks, you don’t really need a rooster. They do have some benefit for flock protection if you free range. You could easily pick up a rooster somewhere along the way. People give them away for free all the time.

 

[Painted Calls]

Make sure you properly quarantine if you decide to bring home a rooster.