Please, help identify - 3m.o. - hens or roos? (pics)

[Hope119]

This would be my first try to post some images to this board

This is the link to the entire album: http://picasaweb.google.com/1034166...authkey=Gv1sRgCJT065nGqM_o7wE&feat=directlink - it has larger images that can be zoomed in - I also put links to pics in this album above each picture from uploads.

Our chickens are a bit over 3 moths old. We had 24 healthy chicks hatched. The favorite one of my daughters (although a roo) disappeared couple weeks ago, so we are left with 23. I think at least 13 of them a roos. (when I was buying 3 doz eggs for the incubator, I was hoping to end up with at least a dozen hens... oh well)

1) This lady(?) starts to get orange feathers. But it is a hen, right?

http://picasaweb.google.com/1034166...nGqM_o7wE&feat=directlink#5503280576907667714

http://picasaweb.google.com/1034166...nGqM_o7wE&feat=directlink#5503280585480794130

2) What do you think of this one?
http://picasaweb.google.com/1034166...nGqM_o7wE&feat=directlink#5503280623506946514

http://picasaweb.google.com/1034166...nGqM_o7wE&feat=directlink#5503280661698533506

http://picasaweb.google.com/1034166...nGqM_o7wE&feat=directlink#5503280733668635794

and here she(?) is with a friend that I am also hoping to be a hen
http://picasaweb.google.com/1034166...nGqM_o7wE&feat=directlink#5503280670706671378

http://picasaweb.google.com/1034166...nGqM_o7wE&feat=directlink#5503280697294780450

3) close up on a friend:
http://picasaweb.google.com/1034166...nGqM_o7wE&feat=directlink#5503280703776277026

http://picasaweb.google.com/1034166...nGqM_o7wE&feat=directlink#5503280710352596578

http://picasaweb.google.com/1034166...nGqM_o7wE&feat=directlink#5503280722676590130

4) and we have 2 or 3 looking like this (except only this one has some white feathers in front) - these photos were taken when he was almost 3 months:
http://picasaweb.google.com/1034166...nGqM_o7wE&feat=directlink#5495965971616032706

http://picasaweb.google.com/1034166...nGqM_o7wE&feat=directlink#5495966005643414050

- I thought The Book (the one for dummies) gave me the answer (if it crows, it's a roo), but now that I've noticed this thread... well, what do you think?

I also don't know what breeds they are. They are mixes, I am sure - I think their grandparents were ordered from a website (McMurray?), but then each family (with parents and grandparents) just kept one roo, while chickens were different colors.

Thanks a lot!

 

[RainbowBirds_of_a_Feather]

Aloha,

I believe that they may be all males except the pure Black Bearded one. I believe that that bird is a girl. The last one is a Male (Black with little white on it's chest.) This first picture is a late blooming male, my opinion. Hope this helps.

 

[NonnasBabies]

1's a pullet and the other 2 are roos!!

Missi

 

[Hope119]

Thanks for your time!
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Which one is that? Which one is Black Bearded? The number 3?
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Well, there are 4 birds total - I have numbered them 1), 2), 3) and 4). Which ones do you think are roos?

 

[Hope119]

Anyone else has an opinion? Should I get more pics?

 

[Matt A NC]

The only possible girl I see is #3.

Matt

 

[Hope119]

So if this sort of chicken is getting orange feathers, it means it's a roo? How else do you tell about this one that he is a roo?

 

[Mahonri]

First one is a pullet, the rest roos.

 

[Hope119]

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Including the #3??

 

[StormyMoon]

number one kind of looks like my astralorp pullet