I have 8 six week old chickens that I’m afraid might be 7 Roosters and only one hen.

[ShrekDawg]

@ShrekDawg - opinions?

They look like pullets to me

 

[BigBlueHen53]

Even the one in the first oic, @ShrekDawg ?

 

[ShrekDawg]

Even the one in the first oic, @ShrekDawg ?

I went back and looked and then went and looked at some of my chicks pics and yes. Mine had MASSIVE and RED combs at 4 weeks. This one is somewhat pale by comparison and it’s 6 weeks. I mean, it’s a little red and obviously could still be male but the feather coloring looks fairly even to me too and not splotchy. I’m kind of on the fence I guess. But leaning towards female. The others all look female to me.

 

[ShrekDawg]

Even the one in the first oic, @ShrekDawg ?

4 weeks old for comparison

8 weeks old

 

[AllyTheCoonHound]

I hatched them. When I picked up the eggs there was only one rooster and a very large mix of hens. Red circle is a hen and green circle is questionable

black copper maran
speckled sussex
barnevelder
Plymouth Rock
blue & white laced wyandotte
buff Orpington
Ameraucana

Day they hatched. Lost a yellow one and another. They are in a smaller cage at night but they fluff up and fight for a few seconds while they’re outside during the day. I could obviously be wrong. I hope so. They’re all very friendly

 

[TheOddOneOut]

Do you think we could get individual, numbered photos of the birds in question? I'm seeing a few cockerels, but I think you may be mislabeling some pullets as cockerels, too.

 

[AllyTheCoonHound]

Yeah, give me a few minutes

 

[AllyTheCoonHound]

Do you think we could get individual, numbered photos of the birds in question? I'm seeing a few cockerels, but I think you may be mislabeling some pullets as cockerels, too.

Do you think we could get individual, numbered photos of the birds in question? I'm seeing a few cockerels, but I think you may be mislabeling some pullets as cockerels, too.

Do you think we could get individual, numbered photos of the birds in question? I'm seeing a few cockerels, but I think you may be mislabeling some pullets as cockerels, too.

I’ll have to give it a try during the day. Thanks

 

[ChookaPete]

I would just hang onto them anyway, regardless of whether they are female or male.

 

[NatJ]

I hatched them. When I picked up the eggs there was only one rooster and a very large mix of hens.

In that case, there most likely are some of each sex.
If they aren't obvious yet, more time is usually the answer.

If the rooster really was a Copper Marans, or any other "red" rooster (has red/gold but not white/silver in his coloring, amount of black does not matter), then the silver-and-black chicks must be males. That would include the ones you circled in red and in green in the most recent photos.

But if there had been another rooster within the few weeks before you got the eggs, there could be females of those colors. So I would definitely keep an eye on those birds, but wouldn't be positive either way just yet. From that list of hens, the other colors of chicks could be males or females.

You have several types of combs there, some of which will naturally be bigger than others, which makes it more difficult to judge sex by comb size. They have to be considered as size for that type of comb, not just compared directly with each other. The one you circled in green has a pea comb, which is generally smaller than a single comb. For examples, look at pictures of adult Ameraucana roosters: their combs are relatively small even when they are fully grown.

Wattles can be helpful in checking sex too, because they tend to get bigger and redder on the males than the females around this age. But beards cause wattles to be smaller and also hide them, which makes bearded chicks a bit harder to sex (and I see that several of yours have beards.)

black copper maran
speckled sussex
barnevelder
Plymouth Rock
blue & white laced wyandotte
buff Orpington
Ameraucana

If those are the mother breeds:
--the chick with the rose comb had a Wyandotte mother
--the chicks with beards had Ameraucana mother, and have a chance of laying green eggs. They are likely to have pea combs. Expect brown eggs from chicks with any of the other mothers.
--chicks from the other hens must have single combs (but chicks from Wyandotte or Ameraucana might also have single combs.)
--if the Plymouth Rocks were Barred (black with white stripes), they did not give you any sons. Sons of them would be black with white barring, and I don't see any of those in your pictures.

The chick you circled in green this time has a beard and a pea comb, so it has the Ameraucana mother and probably has the blue egg gene. But it might be male (comb small because it's a pea comb, wattles small or hidden because of the beard, chance of color-sexlink say it's male). I would definitely watch that one carefully but not give up just yet.

They are in a smaller cage at night but they fluff up and fight for a few seconds while they’re outside during the day. I could obviously be wrong. I hope so. They’re all very friendly

The fluffing up and fighting is something that both males and females can do at this age.