Thanks everyone for your input! If we don't end up with any cockerels, that'll be just fine. If the Wyandotte is a cockerel, that'll be fine too. Better than my original fear that we had 3 potential roos. Here's a lovely picture I took yesterday of all my big chicks on the new roosting board I...
Okay great! Yes, one of the W definitely has a much brighter comb than the other one. Lol I feel so impatient now... I just want to know! But I can wait 😊 it's my first time and I'm just loving it. Can't help but be anxious to know.
Okay, I will investigate more to be sure but I haven't noticed any extra glossy feathers on any of them except Teddy's neck feathers. My pics don't really capture it, but she/he does have long, glossy feathers around neck/shoulders.
Okay, I have heard that from Teddy and Red! I also have 7 week old chicks, two olive eggers and two wyandottes. One of the olive eggers makes a sound like that occasionally as well.
Edna doesn't try to get on the other chicks, she just kicks at them. She doesn't do it very often, it looks more like a pissy thing than a mating thing. She is also smaller than Teddy, Red, and Pocahontas. Teddy and Red are the two who seem most likely to be roos, they are the two biggest. But...
Okay thanks. Fyi Teddy was the first chick to roost, his feathers are the longest, his feet are large, and he has made some sounds that were rather loud. But I haven't heard a crow. Our coop is far away from the house, so I never hear the morning crows. But my sister said it woke her up when she...