Which are the roosters? Cuckoo Maran vs. Dominique

[Shallon]

These chicks are a month old. I know I have three cuckoo marans (one was supposed to be a cockerel), two dominiques, and two barred rock. After weeks of patiently waiting for feathers to come in and figure out who was who (they all looked the same as chicks) the only ones I can figure out are the barred rocks due to the barring on the wings.
So I took a lot of photos to try so find out which one is the rooster...or if it's too early to tell, or if I don't actually have a roo, or if I have no roos after all!
Here's the link to the album GUESS THE COCKEREL
If the link doesn't work, let me know, I can upload all the photos to a Picasa album but that will take awhile.

 

[dretd]

Hi Shallon!

I found it hard to pick out chicks on the photos becasue they were pretty far away and I was having trouble with the details.

There are some 'tells' that you can look at to differentiate between the breeds and if you need help then maybe a close up of the feet and also a straight-on head shot highlighting the comb would be great.

Barred Rock= single comb and yellow legs (may have some slate/black wash on the fronts), crisp barring
Dominique=rose comb and yellow legs, less crisp barring
Cuckoo Marans=straight comb and whitish pinky legs, less crisp to indistinct barring

and the cockerels are starting to get a bigger more pink colored comb--and the girls only have one copy of the barring gene so they are half as brightly barred.

Some are hard to tell sex on but pictures 1,3,6,7,8 looks like boys, and girls in 4,9 cant tell in 2 and 5 has a boy in front and a girl in back--stopped looking at 10

 

[Shallon]

Thanks! Does a rose comb look like two single combs next to each other, really bumpy?

 

[donrae]

In this pic, both the black and white birds look like roosters to me. I can't see combs well enough to say what breeds they are, but dretd explained what goes with who. A rose comb is a wider, flat bumps spot, as opposed to a straight comb that looks like a sawtooth.