We think we have a rooster, but he's still not crowing!

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Hello, I live in Oakland, CA and we aren't allowed to have roosters. Some quick background: we recently built our chicken coop out of an old swingset using only found and recycled materials (I'll post a picture soon in the appropriate board). A very cool eco-friendly project. But this is our first go raising chickens!

Anyways, we have 5 chickens and at least 2 of them are laying already (I suspect the Rhode Island whites).

But we strongly suspect that one of our chickens is a rooster (I'm not sure of the breed, I sorta just grabbed whichever ones from the chicken store). The confusing part is they are all about 4 1/2 months old and I haven't heard any crowing coming from our backyard Shouldn't I have heard something by now?

What is going on here, and do we have a rooster that is just a late bloomer? (and more importantly, anyone in the Bay Area who wants a handsome fellow if he does turn out to be a boy?)

T-Rex (the one we think is the rooster) is the brown one (our other chickens are: Nugget, Benedict, Olivia, and Spare).

 

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I was reading this woman's blog, and scrolled down and saw this picture credited as being a female chicken (Ameraucana breed)
http://skepweaver.wordpress.com/2008/07/12/barcodes-and-anarchists-or-knowing-about-chickens/



I'm so confused....

 

[chicken pickin]

She is a female Easter Egger. She looks close to laying give her a few more weeks.

 

[ramirezframing]

hen

 

[keesmom]

You have an Easter Egger pullet.

 

[BantamLover21]

Easter Egger pullet. Pretty bird! I have one that looks almost exactly like that.

 

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Thank you everyone! I'm so relieved! It was the lanky body and pointy tail that made us so sure she was a he. And her body type is so different than the others. We were stressed because T Rex is our favorite, but it looks like we have all girls then