Rooster or hen?

[Phalennichole]

Not the best pictures but can anyone tell if they are rooster or hens? I’m thinking one or two are roosters and the rest are hens but I could be wrong? One for sure I can tell.

 

[WIchickMama]

7 pics, so 7 different birds? Age would help, but I am thinking pic #1 is a cockerel

 

[EggSighted4Life]

They were hatched the 4th of June and they are mixed Brahmas. Yes 7 different birds and the first one looks for sure like a cockerel to me as well.

Sometimes as early as 10 weeks but usually around 12 and well by 16 is when male specific pointy saddle feathers start coming in and are obvious. I do think I'm seeing them on a couple birds already (the first one and the colorful one with red leakage). Sometimes pattern can make rounded feathers LOOK pointy.. putting your fingers or a sheet of paper behind them can help discern true shape.

Examples from google..

 

[DobieClose]

What is their age?

 

[Faithful flock]

Age?

 

[Phalennichole]

7 pics, so 7 different birds? Age would help, but I am thinking pic #1 is a cockerel

I couldn’t get them all to cooperate in the second set of pictures lol. First two pictures is the same bird. Third picture is two different birds. Fourth picture the one in the front is another bird. 5th picture is another two. Last picture the one in the back is another bird but you can’t really see her lol. If this helps
Explain the pictures. The birds I didn’t say I’m the pictures are because the same birds walked in the picture.

 

[WIchickMama]

I am not sure if the 1st pic from the first time and the 4th pic is the same bird, but that is the only one that I would be 99% confident in saying are cockerels. The rest, some are pinker than others but not huge combs-but Brahmas can also be slow to mature so it could be a few more weeks until you know for sure. '
Do you know what they are mixed with?

 

[Phalennichole]

7 pics, so 7 different birds? Age would help, but I am thinking pic #1 is a cockerel

They were hatched the 4th of June and they are mixed Brahmas. Yes 7 different birds and the first one looks for sure like a cockerel to me as well. Once my daughter gets home from school and can hold them for me I’ll try and get some better pictures. Here’s a couple more pictures a have if these are better. One is all white and looks nothing like the others colors. There’s two pictures of her in these pictures. I’m trying to figure out which one of my hens it could be mixed with. Don’t mind the dirty floor it stormed last night so everything is gross!

 

[Phalennichole]

I am not sure if the 1st pic from the first time and the 4th pic is the same bird, but that is the only one that I would be 99% confident in saying are cockerels. The rest, some are pinker than others but not huge combs-but Brahmas can also be slow to mature so it could be a few more weeks until you know for sure. '
Do you know what they are mixed with?

Yes it is the same bird in both those picks. Some of them are all white and black like our light Brahmas and some are white and black but also have brown specks randomly on them. We have two roosters. A white silkie and a light Brahma which we no longer have him because he started attacking all the chickens and rooster randomly and they looked so beat up. I was over it so we rehomed him. We had one full Brahma hen but she died (she was alive when they were hatched) . Our other buff and dark Brahmas were still to young so I know they aren’t with them. We have Easter eggers, a barred rock, a Red sexlink, a legbar is what I was told? Two White silkies (I know they aren’t from them because he never got on them) and a australorp. All our other breeds are still to young.
That’s the color of our Easter eggers. (They are my favorite lol they have the friendliest demeanor).

 

[Phalennichole]

Sometimes as early as 10 weeks but usually around 12 and well by 16 is when male specific pointy saddle feathers start coming in and are obvious. I do think I'm seeing them on a couple birds already (the first one and the colorful one with red leakage). Sometimes pattern can make rounded feathers LOOK pointy.. putting your fingers or a sheet of paper behind them can help discern true shape.

Examples from google..
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I will try the paper thing after my daughter gets home to hold them. We have two roosters already so any that turn out to be roosters with be rehomed to live on my friends farm. We have already rehomed 5 . Our silkie (our first rooster ever) was top rooster and then our light Brahma turned a year and started attacking everyone and made my hens look so ugly so he had to go. We have a dark Brahma rooster now I think he’s 5 or 6 months. He’s still calm so we will see how that pans out .