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chicks51415

chicks51415

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May 16, 2015
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Ok I have asked this several times and I am still not sure! I have two chickens one who is DEFINITLY a rooster and another that I have not been so sure about. My for sure rooster (AJ) has began crowing and has a huge bright red comb and wattles already at 13 weeks old. My other (Lennie) I'm not so sure about. S/he just doesn't look like a rooster to me. Lennie is very round and doesn't have the posture that AJ has and doesn't seem to be growing a tail like him. S/he has short curly tail feathers and my rooster has long pointed ones that are starting to turn into a big tail. I don't know why but my rooster AJ crows all the time and it's a strong crow but Lennie only crows like a few times and it's very weak sounding and doesn't sound right so I was thinking Lennie might only be trying to mimick AJ. Lennie just has a very feminine personality and I'm just not sure so any one that could help would be great. I'm attaching pictures of them both and they are BARRED ROCK chickens.
 
A less dominant cockerel will not crow as much as a dominant cockerel - some just mature more slowly than others. By th way, your pictures are not showing.
 
The first picture is AJ my rooster and the last three are Lennie that I'm not sure about

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No. They are really not Barred Rocks. They are barred, but not pure. They are both male. They both have male hackle feathers and male saddle feathers. The gold on the necks and wings is never present in pure birds. A male barred Rock has narrow bars of black and wider bars of white because a pure male always has a double copy of the barring gene. Your birds have thicker black bars. They only have one copy of the barring gene, further evidence of them being cross bred black sexlink males.
 
Just checked your previous posts. You said these were Black Queens. That's one name for Black Sexlinks (crossbreed). The chicks are sexable at hatch. Males have a white spot on the back of the heads as chicks and feather in barred.
 

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