12-Week-Old Easter Egger Pullet or Roo?

[Chipmunk Chicks]

I know this is an EE but the coloring looks to me like a Golden Hamburg, to which, she has the female coloring. So the coloring doesn't necessarily scream cockerel to me.

https://backyardpoultry.iamcountryside.com/chickens-101/hamburg-chicken-breed-profile/

 

[Party_Chicken]

How many other cockerels do you have I had a roo that flew right under my radar when we re homed the cockerels he crowed at 15 weeks. Your bird could be hiding his male traits or just be a late developer but I’m leaning cockerel.

This is a picture of him at 19 weeks old I didn’t have a good picture of him about your birds age.

 

[Chipmunk Chicks]

@fluffycrow

 

[fluffycrow]

Pullet

 

[Chipmunk Chicks]

Pullet

The skinny curvy tail feathers don't bother you at all?

 

[-Chanticleer-]

Hi there,

I have an Easter egger that I’m pretty sure is a Pullet but at the same time, her stance and tail look very roo-like to me. Plus, she (he?) is is the bully of the flock and can be aggressive.

What makes me think she’s a pullet— her comb is still pretty small in par with my other hens, she’s the same size as the rest of my girls if not a tiny bit smaller, and she hasn’t tried to crow yet.

What makes me think she might be a cockerel is her body shape/stance, her straight up tail, and how her head feathers are very markedly different in color to her body. Also her tail feathers look very rounded.

Anyway, I actually do want a roo, so if she is one, then I have my roo already — if not I have found a roo that needs a home, I just can’t take him until I’m sure.

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Roo.

 

[fluffycrow]

Roo.

Well one thing's for sure, it ain't a rooster. A cockerel? Possibly, but not a rooster

 

[-Chanticleer-]

Well one thing's for sure, it ain't a rooster. A cockerel? Possibly, but not a rooster

In a few weeks or months it’ll be a rooster.

 

[fluffycrow]

In a few weeks or months it’ll be a rooster.

If by a few months you mean 9 months then yes, possibly, if this bird is a male

 

[pipdzipdnreadytogo]

At 12 weeks of age, I have no doubts that this is a pullet.