10 week old Barred Rock - male or female?

[Yardmom]

I have a heritage barred hen that is whiter looking than this, but honestly I'm thinking those waddles are pretty large for ten weeks. This bird has the wrong color skin for a barred rock, so either not quality breeding (or it is really a cuckoo marans), so I say cockeral.

 

[Thriftshopblues]

Nice little poulet.

Thank you!

I have a heritage barred hen that is whiter looking than this, but honestly I'm thinking those waddles are pretty large for ten weeks. This bird has the wrong color skin for a barred rock, so either not quality breeding (or it is really a cuckoo marans), so I say cockeral.

Cuckoo Marans(White/pink shanks), & a cockerel.

Wow I’m thinking Cuckoo Marans too now that I’ve looked them up. Do you say cockerel based on the comb/wattle growth?

 

[Thriftshopblues]

I have a heritage barred hen that is whiter looking than this, but honestly I'm thinking those waddles are pretty large for ten weeks. This bird has the wrong color skin for a barred rock, so either not quality breeding (or it is really a cuckoo marans), so I say cockeral.

This bird wasn’t labeled as a Barred Rock, I just guessed that’s what s/he was based on her markings. I put an order in with the farm for two Easter eggers, two olive eggers and four buff orps. When I picked them up they said they had “thrown a couple extra in,” so I left with 10 chicks. I thought this one was an olive egger until her white spot came in on her head and then she developed the barring. So most likely she is mixed. I also ended up with this pretty aggressive rooster we ironically had named “Queenie”… he just started crowing which snapped me out of my denial

 

[labelo]

This bird wasn’t labeled as a Barred Rock, I just guessed that’s what s/he was based on her markings. I put an order in with the farm for two Easter eggers, two olive eggers and four buff orps. When I picked them up they said they had “thrown a couple extra in,” so I left with 10 chicks. I thought this one was an olive egger until her white spot came in on her head and then she developed the barring. So most likely she is mixed. I also ended up with this pretty aggressive rooster we ironically had named “Queenie”… he just started crowing which snapped me out of my denial

I think your bird (who very well could be an olive egger! they're made with all sorts of mixes) might be e^b partridge with only one Pg gene, thus the sort of incomplete penciling/pseudo-barring. I'd be curious how those patterned feathers grow out as he ages!

I concur with others that the OP's bird looks more cuckoo than barred.

 

[McChooky]

It looks like my barred rock and Dominique hens.I didn't raise any males so I don't have any photos to compare it to but I did raise 2 crested cream legbars that are barred and they're also much whiter than the pullets. The combs develops quickly in the males and the beaks and legs don't have the dark pigment or shading like your pullet .If you click on this photo you will see 2 barred (cream legbar) cockerels on the rightat 12 weeks .They are much lighter a barred pullet.The pullet on the left is a brown leghorm

 

[Thriftshopblues]

It looks like my barred rock and Dominique hens.I didn't raise any males so I don't have any photos to compare it to but I did raise 2 crested cream legbars that are barred and they're also much whiter than the pullets. The combs develops quickly in the males and the beaks and legs don't have the dark pigment or shading like your pullet but because its .If you click on this photo you will see 2 barred (cream legbar) cockerels on the rightat 12 weeks .They are much lighter a barred pullet.The pullet on the left is a brown leghorm

Oh wow, they are similar. What did you mean to say about the dark pigment in his/her beak and legs?

 

[McChooky]

Oh wow, they are similar. What did you mean to say about the dark pigment in his/her beak and legs?

If you look closely on the front of the pullets legs it'll have dark sharing(gray)She'll also have a black portion of beak the cockerels don't have

 

[McChooky]

Compared your to my cockerels: He has no black pigment on his beak and has a larger comb

 

[McChooky]

Her legs have a grey highlight on the front

 

[Thriftshopblues]

Her legs have a grey highlight on the front

So you’re thinking pullet? Really no other signs other than large comb and wattles. I do have to say the comb on this one looks much redder than yours did though