Too young to tell? Roo or hen?

[Sweetest]

OK, lots of questions, really.

I have some chicks that I've been told are about 3 to 4 weeks old. And they're supposedly white leghorns. They don't photograph well (they just turn a blinding white in the pics and no features stand out). So I'm going to post pics of a couple of different ones from my flock, but rest assured, they all look the same. What I'm trying to find out is whether or not they're roosters. They all have massive feet. Their comb is tiny and not at all pink. It's a little hard to describe behavior yet, since we got them a week ago and they're all skittish still. But I can say that these birds are the oldest out of my flock, and all of the other chickens run up to be pet and touched. These don't, but I chalk that up to sitting at TSC with no human contact for a few weeks.








Thanks for the help!

 

[scolebrother]

One and two Roos three hen and four are ducks (ha)

 

[Sweetest]

LOL besides the ducks (who are, incidentally, half the age and twice the size of my oldest chicks), what makes you say that?

We wouldn't have gone home with the older chicks. But they were a mercy thing. The man at TSC told us that, after the chickens start being able to fly, they send them to a commercial farm to be killed for meat. And we didn't want that to happen. So he sold them to us for cheap so they didn't have to be sent back.

All five of my older chicks look the same. I really hope that they aren't all roos. Not that I wouldn't love them. But I don't want to have to get rid of them just because they're boys (no zoning laws regarding roosters, but too many in a flock spells trouble). Fingers crossed...

 

[scolebrother]

Not necessarily. I have two Roos that get along just fine.

 

[Brandi Leigh]

It is still pretty early to tell for sure.

 

[Sweetest]

I know they CAN get along, but we've already seen a little "aggression" in ours. They chest bump and flap their wings and scream at each other a lot. I hope that, at this age, that's just playing.