Question on RIR genders with pics

[Minniechickmama]

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I AGREE, ALL ROOS EXCEPT THE LAST PIC

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ditto

 

[Chickiemama1010]

Are you all just guessing? Is this a majority rules herd mentality? I cant say about all 4 of them, but I am 100% positive that last one is a roo, NOT a hen. The one in the 3rd pic (facing up) might be a hen, I cant tell about the rest.

To the OP:look for hackle feathers, that is a collar of long feathers around the neck. The roos are the ones that have that.

 

[Happy Chooks]

It's much to young to judge by hackle feathers. Hackle and saddle feathers come much later. It's still chick fuzz where hackle feathers should be.

 

[Chris09]

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Both sexes have hackle feathers, it is just that the Roosters are pointed "sharp" and the hens are rounded or "blunt".
The first three are no doubt Cockerels but the fourth is iffy.
The comb, head and beak color says Pullet but the coloring coming in on the wing and on the shoulder says Cockerel..

If I was you I would wait another week and update us with a new picture of it...

Chris

 

[Knock Kneed Hen]

I just think that the growth rate varies so much....I have 20 pullets, all about the same age. I can't believe the difference in size and feathering. I have one almost completed feathered out and another that really doesn't look much different than it did on day 5. Just give it another week and don't worry about it. . . easier said than done, I know!

Every day I'm examining combs, wattles, tail feathers. . . I have one cockerel so far out of a batch of 20 "pullets" --not too bad. I think the only sure way of knowing is when you hear crowing or see an egg!!

BTW, here's a pic of my 4 week old RIR pullet.

 

[Chickiemama1010]

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Both sexes have hackle feathers, it is just that the Roosters are pointed "sharp" and the hens are rounded or "blunt".
The first three are no doubt Cockerels but the fourth is iffy.
The comb, head and beak color says Pullet but the coloring coming in on the wing and on the shoulder says Cockerel..

If I was you I would wait another week and update us with a new picture of it...

Chris

Im not trying to be aggressive here. If it came off that way, I didnt mean for that. I know that both sexes have hackle feathers. All I was saying, was in my experience the pullets get the body feathers, wings and tails much quicker than the roos, and the roos seem to sprout their hackle feathers before the hens do. I know its not 100% accurate but it seems to be generally accurate