Would like some opinions before I give my maybe rooster baby away

[chrissy903]

I'm so sorry! Did you get them already sexed? This is my biggest fear. This is my first time raising chickens in a very long time and I really don't want to end up with only one pullet and by the time we find out it would probably be too late to buy more chicks. 

Thank you! I still kept them even though all three were crowing for months. I raised them for eight months and it was time to rehome. They do change when they mature. I advise u to rehome sooner than later bc it's tough emotionally. They get a little aggressive and wild bc of their hormones. Too bad u can't sex them right away. I'm sad but it's the right thing to do.

 

[chrissy903]

Seems like most baby chicks turn out to be roosters.

 

[rc4u]

im telling ya the feather length at that age works

 

[WilhelminaD]

Give it time, like Donrae suggested. I found that the way I was able to tell my two roos pretty early is that they developed more slowly than my pullets. They're smaller, their feathers are taking longer to come in, and their tails took a lot longer to come in. In addition, when the tails came in they were curved and the pullets tails are straight. This is in addition to the comb growing faster than with the pullets, and turning pink very early.