Brahma crosses usually get feathered feet and a pea comb. Audrey has nice clean feet, and the comb looks like a normal rose comb, rather than the walnut comb that pea + rose would make.
Someone suggested Barnevelder x Wyandotte, which I think sounds reasonable. (That suggestion is buried...
That is a good point, although I've read of at least one case where the DNA test was wrong, so I'm not sure how much that would help. If the situation is confusing, and a DNA test "might" be wrong, we'd just be back where we are right now.
I'm enjoying the progression of photos, and later we...
Because some other folks (not this forum) told OP the bird was a female.
And OP took the bird to a vet a while back, who pronounced it to be female.
And the bird hasn't crowed yet, or tried to mate with females, or laid an egg.
And it was malnourished when young, which may or may not have...
Pretty chickens!
Um, those look like male saddle feathers growing in on Audrey's back. :oops:
Any crowing, mating, or egg-laying yet?
I figure it it lays an egg it's female, no matter how it looks.
If it fathers a chick it's male, again no matter how it looks.
And if it crows it's probably...
I've seen lots of posts in this thread thread stating that Audrey is male.
I've seen the Original Poster's reasons for continuing to believe that Audrey is female.
It looks to me like we should all just sit back and wait a few months, because then the answer will be obvious. No amount of...