Wheaten or Blue Wheaten Ameraucana? Hen or Rooster? Please Help!

[chickenlover89]

also, i added my new baby chicks to my existing flock and she was the ONLY one who picked on them and she kept pecking them and scratching them and like jumping on top of them, does that mean rooster also?

 

[chickenlover89]

or was she just trying to stay at the top of the pecking order?

 

[hdowden]

pic?

 

[chickenlover89]

one sec

 

[chickenlover89]

this is the best shot i could get of her comb, there is still not that much there.

 

[chickenlover89]

she has started backing away from me a little bit just like a rooster would.

 

[chickenlover89]

does a pea comb mean that an ameraucana is a rooster?

 

[chickenlover89]

here she is at 8 weeks, just like theoldchick wanted:







this HUGE tail is worrying me.

 

[chickenlover89]

I'm thinking she could still be a he, the tail and colors just dont look like a pullet to me.

 

[RhodeRunner]

You have a pullet, with some unruly behavior Not at all uncommon for Ameraucanas. LOL.

With that color, a rooster isn't possible. The males have a lot more black.

Ameraucanas have pea combs, this isn't gender specific. Most cockerels have more pronounced combs (three ridges that really stick out) by that age.