new chicks

[luvfurnfeathers]

Hi all
As usual I need some advice. I got 5 new chicks ( a friend purchased from a auction) I wanted some Easter egger and barred rocks.
I have them together in a small fenced area with a small coop by themselves and they all get along well even thought they are clearly not the same ages. I now have them for 17 days and I do not have all hens as i was hoping for. since the beautiful little brown one is now crowing. can anyone tell if the others are roosters or hens? the last picture is of the girls and rooster i have now. they are quite large, they have been side by side with a fence in between them since i got them, are they still too small to put together and will my large rooster hurt the small one?
any advice is very much welcome.

 

[ramirezframing]

rooster
pullet
rooster
barred is a rooster






Hi all
As usual I need some advice. I got 5 new chicks ( a friend purchased from a auction) I wanted some Easter egger and barred rocks.
I have them together in a small fenced area with a small coop by themselves and they all get along well even thought they are clearly not the same ages. I now have them for 17 days and I do not have all hens as i was hoping for. since the beautiful little brown one is now crowing. can anyone tell if the others are roosters or hens? the last picture is of the girls and rooster i have now. they are quite large, they have been side by side with a fence in between them since i got them, are they still too small to put together and will my large rooster hurt the small one?
any advice is very much welcome.

 

[donrae]

Your new birds all look like roosters except the black pullet. I see a barred Rock and some EE cockerels. I sure wouldn't try to integrate them to a batch of existing hens with a rooster, I'd just sell them or process them.

 

[luvfurnfeathers]

so sad really wanted hens..

how can you tell the barred is a rooster? very sad on that one he will sit on lap and let me pet him, i was getting very fond on him..

 

[ashtree]

Your new birds all look like roosters except the black pullet. I see a barred Rock and some EE cockerels. I sure wouldn't try to integrate them to a batch of existing hens with a rooster, I'd just sell them or process them. 

X2 so sorry.

 

[donrae]

The light overall color say the barred bird is male. If you look at some of the threads about sexing barred Rocks, they show great comparison pics of male and female.