NO Trinkets my other two birds are not RIRs...However, one is an Ameraucana which is a bigger breed. But she is smaller than Red and the legs on my two pullets are half the thickness of Red's. Sounds like your Red and my Red are indeed Cockerels. They developed the comb very early. My pullets...
I am thinking if you your red is developing a comb this early it could be a rooster. Mine had the "hen stripe" but it is a rooster. At 9 weeks old now he behaves like a rooster and is getting significantly bigger than the other chickens and his giant legs are a dead giveaway. He started to...
My Rhode Island Red had the stripe down the back when it was born and through its infancy. But now at 2 months everyone is saying it is Definately a ROOSTER