With a decidely patchy male coloration, leakage on the shoulders and male saddle feathers coming in? 🤔 and a relatively prominent pea comb and wattles... I’d say that’s a cockerel. 🤷🏼♀️
Oh yeah, and in the pic where the patch is on the wing and the bird is leaning down, there’s a suspicious reddish feather that I’m hoping is a trick of the light and not leakage starting to poke out.
I’m extra suspicious of any bird not showing any obvious signs either way after I sold a bantam EE chick to a friend, we were both convinced was a pullet, and it only just developed its saddles and hackles at 20 weeks. 🤦♀️ Had no leakage on the wings, no obvious male traits otherwise. The comb...
Hmmmm, I would still be suspicious of it being a late blooming cockerel... it has white wing bars and kind of a funny pattern... and I personally feel that’s a lot of wattle development if it’s a pullet. My single combed pullets have hardly any wattles til they’re closer to laying age... and...