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Definitely has saddles and hackles and the very shiny sheen of a cockerel but has some pullet features as well… no mystery eggs since they’ve been confined though! I do have a picture of the eggs I’ll post

I think it’s a cockerel after all. I have since had a bobcat coming in during the day stealing a good number of chickens. We made a dog kennel run for all the chickens. I haven’t found any of the chalky eggs since, so that part is still a mystery but there have only been six laying hens and six...

She is definitely low on the pecking order so her leeriness to the other hens pecks might be keeping her off of the nests also, she might feel safer in the cage and once she’s forced to lay there she may continue and then at least she’d be laying in the coop and not out on the ground… we’ll see...

I have ceramic eggs, one in each nest. So far I’ve only found the chalky new eggs outside so I’m hoping that locking her in the cage might also rectify that issue and hopefully her body will adjust to laying and not add that extra layer of calcium

I think I will put her in the cage, mainly so I don’t have to hunt down that egg outside everyday lol! When do they figure that part out?

A little over 5 months

She doesn’t crow or mount but she will raise her hackles and play fight with the other young cockerel she came with, he hasn’t crowed yet or tried to mount either but my roosters don’t like them around their hens, the roosters and other hens will let her roost and eat with them but they always...

That’s a great idea, I have a big parrot cage in the coop so I can easily separate if needed, so I’ll do that and let you know what I find

This is the other young cockerel I got with the hen in doubt

These are the hens, one got taken by a predator there are 7 now

My other hens I was told were RIR but I think they may be something else… they are 2 year olds and very consistent. I’ll post a pic of them

This one is a little over 5 months old, she didn’t get the long tail feathers like her brothers and I thought that was a little odd she wasn’t developing the same as them or posturing like they do but the eggs proved he’s actually a she! The boys combs are even larger and brighter than hers but...

I agree she looks that way but I’m sure I don’t have a different hen laying 2 eggs a day…

I only have 7 other hens and for the last 3 days I’ve gotten 8 eggs a day, she doesn’t lay them on the nest, I find them outside and they have an extra calcium layer on them and appear chalky not like my other hens eggs

I have what I thought was going to be a cockerel now laying eggs! She has very shiny and pointy feathers, no big sickle feathers but definitely saddle feathers and she raises her hackles and plays with the other young cockerel, has super thick legs but just started laying eggs