What gender and type of chicken do you think this little floof is?

[MickiMifwest]

At 5 weeks that is definitely a cockerel. Where did you get him? He is the wrong colour for a male red sex link (ISA Brown etc) so I would guess that his mother was probably a red sex link and he is a cross or second generation.

Do you have any pullets? 6 cockerels are going to wreak havoc when they hit adolescence and even if you had 30 pullets to go with them, there is likely going to be injury and certainly stress to the girls. Putting the males in a separate pen (bachelor pad/rooster flock) before their hormones kick in (14-15 weeks) would be a wise move if you are going to keep them all. Even then, you may have fights break out.

We already have 5 adult roosters and one of our hens went broody... The mum is ginger and we don't know which one of the roosters is the dad... We had another hatch 4 days later

 

[ButtonquailGirl14]

We already have 5 adult roosters and one of our hens went broody... The mum is ginger and we don't know which one of the roosters is the dad... We had another hatch 4 days later

how many hens and how many roos?

 

[MickiMifwest]

how many hens and how many roos?

Too many roos... 5 males, 5 adult females, 3 pullets, and 1 undetermined (see last pic)

I know we will need to re home some of the boys

 

[Crazy for Chickens!]

It looks like another one of those Red Sex Links that is colored like a female, but is male.

 

[BlackHackle]

We have just kept them having girly names.. We have a rooster called Susan

I had a rooster named Stella and a Silver Sussex hen named Vince

I could NEVER DO THIS! if I got any cockerels in my feed store chicks (some how I didn't9 pullets) (I actually had to find a cockerel) I would just start a rooster flock!

I used to have huge rooster flocks. Like it was an army of 40 roosters (I have one in the making again ).

 

[MickiMifwest]

I had a rooster named Stella and a Silver Sussex hen named Vince

I used to have huge rooster flocks. Like it was an army of 40 roosters (I have one in the making again ).

I bet that was noisy! Did you have hens as well??

 

[BlackHackle]

I bet that was noisy! Did you have hens as well??

Some hens, in separate housing

 

[ButtonquailGirl14]

Too many roos... 5 males, 5 adult females, 3 pullets, and 1 undetermined (see last pic)

I know we will need to re home some of the boys

I am sorryi think at most you could keep one male per 7 hens.

 

[GT27]

We have just kept them having girly names.. We have a rooster called Susan

I have a hen named Brian

 

[MickiMifwest]

I am sorryi think at most you could keep one male per 7 hens.

Going to try and separate them but they can fly over the gate so might not be very effective!!