mutliple breeds, Sex questions?

[Princess Laya]

Ok, so I am a total novice and this is my first flock of chickens. No one has laid an egg yet and no one has crowed... hmmmm. $ of them have bumps where spurs should be but no one has any spurs. I have not seen any sexual behavior. I am getting very impatient waiting to figure out who is really a hen! How long does it take to see some definitive signs, like crowing or spur development? I fear that my australorp is male because or the two longer feathers starting to grow from the tail. Then I got worried about the rest of them as well. I thought for sure they were all girls since they have all been so quiet for so long. I did the best I could to get pictures... darn chickens would not hold still!

1 rhode island red, 1 buff orpington, 1 red tone easter egger with no puff: all hatched on March 1

1 black australorp: hatched on March 15th

1 coocoo morans, 1red tone easter egger with puffy cheeks, and 1 buff toned easter egger with puffy cheeks: all hatched on March 29th

Any comments would be helpful! Thanks!!!

 

[justbugged]

They all look like hens to me.

 

[lothefarmer]

they all look like hens to me as well.

 

[Mahonri]

All girls and by the looks of them, if they are free range, you need to go on an egg hunt... yeah, even an Easter Egg hunt!!!

 

[sheila3935]

are you sure they are not laying somewhere other than tne nest boxes? Mine 8 were hatched March 18 all RIR's and they have been laying for a month now.

 

[DAFox]

Lock them in the coop for a couple of days and see if they are laying. Put something in the nest box that looks like an egg, like a golf ball or a store bought egg. EEs seem to like hiding eggs, especially. The others might be following their lead.
Are you feeding them a layer feed or giving oyster shell? Hens need extra calcium.
Dale-Ann

 

[Princess Laya]

I have been keeping them in at night and then letting them roam my back yard during the day. They are locked up until I let them out each morning. I am totally going to look all over the place today and see if I can find anything hiding under their favorite bushes. I've kept them in as late as 10am thinking that maybe I'd see an egg. For some stupid reason, I felt bad keeping them in longer. I AM SUCH A NEWBIE!!! Will a hen really wait and hold an egg until she gets outside?

I switched them to laying ration about two weeks ago. And I have oyster shell available. Hmmmmm.

You guys think that even my black chicken is female even though her tail is getting longer???

THANKS SOOOOO MUCH FOR RELIEVING MY ROOSTER ANXIETY!

 

[lothefarmer]

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yes, they will. my girls won't lay until they are let out, but they go back into the coop to lay. they just don't like being stuck in there, i guess. it must stress them out.
i can imagine if a hen lays outside of the coop she definitely would "hold it" lol

& i myself actually have a black sex link with an extremely long tail, and she's definitely a girl

 

[punky rooster]

All Girls

 

[lleighmay]

I think your Australorp is a girl- I have several and they almost all seem to have rather extravagant tail feathers just like yours (it's certainly alarming until you get used to it- I thought 4 out of 5 of my last batch were roos but I was totally wrong). If it was a roo you should definitely know it by now.