Please tell me... is a single one of these a hen??!!??

[outdoorschik]

Please don't laugh at my ignorance, but these are the ones that have not crowed but I think are roosters. I believe I've got at least 16 or 20 that are roosters. These are pics of a few, hatched May 15. Let me know if you spot a hen in any of these pics! Before I give them all away for free on Craigslist for the first crockpotter that wants them, I just want to be sure!

 

[ruth]

Lots of roosters. There's a couple of black ones that could be girls.

 

[cashdl]

Here's a guess.

Top pic : bird in back, black body gold on nec - hen
2nd pic : possibly black bird in front but tail feathers iffy - hen
3rd pic : both black bodied birds with gold, not the one with red - hen
6th pic : black bird in front and black one behind it- hen I think

Everything else screams roo.


Lanae

 

[outdoorschik]

Am I correct in thinking that all the brown ones that grew a darker multi-colored tail are roosters?
Do you think the black one with the longer tail feather could be a female? (pic 6)

 

[cashdl]

Forgot
1st pic both black birds hens
2nd pic all black birds in pic look to be hens.

 

[outdoorschik]

Thanks cashdl... I'm struggling with the longer tail feather on the black birds. They don't have deep red combs and have not crowed, but their mothers didn't have such long tail feather. These guys are barnyard mutts from the hatchery brown egg layers mix that I hatched out.

 

[cashdl]

Pic 6 is a good possibility for hen. It has no comb to speak of and it only looks like 1 tail feather.
Yes all the brown ones with green in their tails are boys.

Lanae

 

[justbugged]

In the second to last picture the darker ones are hens. and the brown bird is a roo.

 

[Rare Feathers Farm]

Looks like all roosters except maybe those Sumatras? They are hard to sex until they start getting saddle feathers...

My Sumatra rooster when he was younger:

A few months later:

My Sumatra rooster now:

 

[outdoorschik]

Darn... I was hoping I was wrong. Once they go to a "free for meat" home or BF gets up the nerve to process them all my coop sure is going to be empty! To think I've been feeding these voracious buggers for four months now.