What happens if both of my Sebrights are cockerels??

[prepperchickens]

I have 4 chickens and 2 guineas. The oldest is less than 5 mos, the youngest is just under a month. I have a male guinea and female, a barred rock pullet who is 4 months and an Ee pullet who is nearly 5 mos. we just finished a beautiful coop with 3 best boxes and we are building a nice secure run while keeping th I. The garage turned chicken playground (complete with clover patch and dirt patch). My two silver sebrights are about 5 weeks old and they are my sweetest babies yet, but one of them is already crowing (the funniest croak of a crow) and I had long thought I had one boy and one girl. The crowing chick has a reddish pink comb of considerable size and until today the others comb was considerably smaller and less red. When I looked today I had trouble telling them apart at first, "her" comb looks very close to his. I have only seen one of them crow but that doesn't make me feel any better. I love them too much to get rid of either but if they're both male will it be an issue? What would I need to do, if anything ? Pleeeeease any advice would be great.

 

[sourland]

They may get along, or they may eventually quarrel. Be prepared to separate them if they start fighting.

 

[prepperchickens]

This is the one I had thought was female.

And this is the one I'm sure is male. His comb has been this way for more than a week and they're the same age but the other has always developed more slowly in every way.
Thoughts?

 

[sourland]

Lots of comb for 5 week old chicks. It is very likely that both are cockerels.

 

[prepperchickens]

When you say separate do you mean like during the fight or at all times permanently? I'm trying to figure out how that can be done. So far they are extremely pair bonded and the one I've known as male seems to protect and guard the other, always has hence my belief until now that I had a straight run pair. My guinea keet is being raised with them, he's male and they absolutely adore him and can't be without him.

 

[prepperchickens]

Thanks. It's so strange how differently they both developed, one was like 3 or 4 days behind. They're extremely sweet and attached to me also, I can't imagine them becoming aggressive right now they are almost to passive and timid lol. They may be 6 weeks or so I forget they were a week old when I got them.

 

[oldhenlikesdogs]

Usually roosters will form a coalition with other males being raised with them, and establish a pecking order pretty young and usually don't really fight, my rooster band together with their siblings, kinda like lions, they will probably become inseparable. The trouble comes if they run across any other roosters that are mature because they will tag team during fights, and they will take turns mating the same hen. I have had problems with handling Bantam roosters too much, seems like if they are friendly they are more likely to attack people, they have spunky attitudes

 

[prepperchickens]

Usually roosters will form a coalition with other males being raised with them, and establish a pecking order pretty young and usually don't really fight, my rooster band together with their siblings, kinda like lions, they will probably become inseparable. The trouble comes if they run across any other roosters that are mature because they will tag team during fights, and they will take turns mating the same hen. I have had problems with handling Bantam roosters too much, seems like if they are friendly they are more likely to attack people, they have spunky attitudes

Oh that makes me feel so much better thank you!. I already see the Bond they are forming they kind of stand apart from the rest of the birds, and my mail Kete is unwittingly included in this little club they have which sucks for him kind of because I could never let him run around the garage with the older birds like he wants to because it will upset my two bantams they cry for him and get really upset and try to fly out of their baby pen. I keep them separate most of the time because my barred rock pull it is particularly fond of chasing them around and pecking them, she did the same to the keet but it isn't as fun for her anymore because he doesn't really care for one thing and stopped running from her and now just ducks underneath her lol. She loves to chase her flockmates, she runs up on them with her little head low stretched out like a bull charging, usually when she's excited about going out to play in the garden with me. She's the alpha chicken for sure, I wonder if that's why she likes to peck my little cockerels? They scream and run to me and I make sure to chase and "peck" her back with my finger. She is 3 months old. I can't imagine my bantams being able to breed her, I can't imagine her submitting to them or them even getting the gutts enough to try. They are very dainty and easily frightened and still cry for me whenever something happens they don't like. I don't handle them much except to "rescue" them or transport them in and out, etc, but they do love it when I hold them in my hand they immediately start singing their happy noise and falling asleep. If I set them on a blanket and cover them up they won't move just relax and go to sleep, lol. They are also very kind and show concern for the others and I can't imagine getting rid of either one. I think they would both be sad for a long long time.
I'm worried that my hens will be overbred but I guess being so tiny I could probably bring them in the house to give my hens a break during mating season??

 

[oldhenlikesdogs]

They will try to breed them but they kinda just end up on the backs of the larger hens and can't really accomplish anything, and because the are lighter in weight, they don't damage the feathers of the hens as much, but they are just as good as large roosters for look outs and protectors