One Rooster...TWO Roosters?!

[Piopio2020]

Hi friends, so today marks 13 weeks of our 6 chicken flock. We have 2 of each breed: Olive Egger, Black Laced Red Wyandotte and Blue Plymouth Rock. Chico, BPR roo has been crowing since about 6-7 weeks. We have one neighbor who is not too happy and complained, all the other neighbors think he’s charming. Anyway this morning he was up and really non stop so we took him inside our house. Well low and behold when we took him inside, we heard Carmella the BLRW start to crow. She’s a big girl and we weren’t sure if she was a roo too. So what I’m looking for is identification if she’s a roo and I imagine I have to get rid of one roo if she is a he right?!

 

[featheredplanets]

Can you take a picture of it’s tail area? I’d expect a cockerel of this age to be much redder but if it’s a he then he should have pointed saddle feathers poking through. Cockerels can generally get along, until they grow into roosters, but if you can’t have males then that’s a problem, someone could report you.

 

[The Happster]

Can you take a picture of it’s tail area? I’d expect a cockerel of this age to be much redder but if it’s a he then he should have pointed saddle feathers poking through. Cockerels can generally get along, until they grow into roosters, but if you can’t have males then that’s a problem, someone could report you.

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[Piopio2020]

Here’s the tail...thank you so much for your guidance!! Our town is a right to farm community and relatively rural area so I am not sure what the repercussions would be. I want to be a good neighbor though.

 

[The Happster]

Mmm
Not seeing saddle feathers, but there are shiny back feathers that look boyish.
Not tons of wattle & comb though.

 

[Piopio2020]

I always thought she might be a rooster bc she was a loner chick but her development has really been slow. Both Wyandotte’s seem slow to develop their wattles. The two Wyandottes look very different but I’ve seen pics of hens that look like both our Wyandotte’s. I’m a total newbie and first time chicken owner so...

 

[The Happster]

I would be thinking hen, but.....those feathers are throwing me off.
Could you get a photo of the back from above? Sorry to bother
This is my first time having a Wyandotte, and my current one is just under 5 weeks.
Mine has been an obvious cockerel since 2 weeks.

 

[Piopio2020]

I have a minute video on her crowing too.

 

[The Happster]

Here is my Silver Laced Wyandotte cross at 5 weeks.
I know he's a very early developer.
He's definitely a boy but he screams like a girl.

 

[Piopio2020]

Oh I can’t post a video. It was a croaky crow.