Sexing 5 month old chickens…PLEASE HELP! Don’t want to Harvest a hen!

SabbyDoo28

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Hello! Our meat chicken made some chicks with our egg layers and now I have LOTS of chickens. We’ve waited to sex them so w can be for sure. We’d like to keep the hens and harvest the roosters. PLEASE HELP!
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Since some hens can also have fairly large combs and wattles, another thing to look at is the hackle (neck), saddle (back) and sickle (tail) feathers. As you can see below, they are longer, more narrow and pointy. The tail feathers curve downward.
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We are having a hard time guessing on some of them, that’s why I sent pics of several of them. Anyone know the others?
 
Hello! Our meat chicken made some chicks with our egg layers and now I have LOTS of chickens. We’ve waited to sex them so w can be for sure. We’d like to keep the hens and harvest the roosters. PLEASE HELP!View attachment 2823792
The first four pics are boys. The next two are pullets. The next three are cockerels. Don't know about the last pic.
 

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