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RIR - 13 weeks - Time to accept I got roosters!!??

I think the first one is a pullet and the second is a roo. Her legs are slimmer.
I think i have a RIR that is just over 10 weeks and I WANT to believe she is a girl because she is just so sweet. However, her comb is way bigger than either one of yours and she is younger. But her behaves so differently than the others I have. She does not like to fight and runs away from any type of confrontation, she has not crowed ( i have 4 and two have started crowing).
You know I'm starting to think I have Buckeyes!!! The reason yours has a bigger comb is because it's single comb...mine have rosecomb or peacomb (I can't tell yet, althought #2 does look like peacomb). I find yours looks like a pullet if you look at the feathers...no pointy hackle or saddle feathers- which is why I'm thinking mine are roosters. The only reason I have my doubts for #1 is that it doesn't act like a rooster. #2 is making rooster sounds and is trying to have some ''sexy time'' with the top hen (which our top rooster is not appreciating!). I can only keep one more rooster because I already have too many (I don't want bareback hens, haha, those poor girls)...so I'm still waiting to see...fingers crossed!
 
They both look like cockerels. On #1 you can see sickle, saddle, and hackle feathers coming in, they aren't as pronounced and shiny as #2's are but in time they will be. They both have the same sized and same colored comb, that also leads me to believe that both are male.
x2 #1 will just be develloping slower. They are probaly both cockerels
 
I'm keeping my fingers crossed she is in fact a lady chicken! However, I have two others im still trying to decide on. One is a rooster as he's crowing. One tries crowing but it's pretty pathetic and few and far between crowing spouts. And the last is large like the other barred rock and starts fights but hasn't tried crowing. I've been trying to compare the others feathers to the rooster but it's difficult because fancy is so different from the others. Hes some sort of bantam with feathers on his feet and a Mohawk! Someone said he might be a cross between a bantam and a silkie, but no idea! Good luck!
 

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