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Pip is definitely a pullet, and a Bielefelder! She's also a sweetheart, and one of my lap chickens. Here she is, taking a nap.

It was purchased as a Bielefelder pullet. That's what I'm hoping for. :) :fl People have said that much comb at 5 weeks... gotta be a cockerel of something else. It is the "extra chick."

Brown Leghorn? Or, hopefully... Bielefelder!

It has yellow legs, so I don't think so. Marans have pinkish-white legs.

And pullet or cockerel...?

New pictures. This is to show the difference in the colors. Pip is the one on the bottom of the picture. Sorry, I rotated me, not the phone. The difference is more noticeable in person. New picture of Pip. 7 weeks on Sunday. The color is paler in person. One of you is right. I really hope...

I'll try to get a new picture today.

This is Pip, the bird in question, at about 5 weeks. I didn't question the gender -- ever -- until someone said, "That's a lot of comb for a 5 week old. And I see wattles starting." That was my first gut clench moment. I don't think the comb has gotten appreciably bigger in the 10 days since...

I ordered 3 Bielefelder pullets (and 1 Blue Australorp pullet) from Mt Healthy. I got what I thought were 4 Biels (and the 1 BA). Bielefelders are auto-sexing at hatch: the females are chipmunk stripe, the males are blond with a pale headspot. Noticeably different, in other words. They are...