10 week old Golden Wyandotte... Rooster or hen? Help!!

[Losobug]

Kittynpuppy, you are welcome. I am new to this and pics were a big help to me too. I was so depressed when my speckled sussex turned out to be a roo. She had been my favorite pullet...lol good luck!!

 

[kittynpuppy]

So, Yesterday, I was out back and saw my husband cuddeling with him/her....LOL I think we are all heart broke about having to adopt her out. I wish there was a way to find her a happy home!!!!

 

[RMo2]

Looks just like my cockerel Mike

 

[En Plein Air Farms]

This worry comes up here every single day, thread after thread. I have the same, waiting to know if two of mine are roosters.

The options most often put forth are list them on Craigslist or in the paper. Apparently someone always comes and takes them.
I won't choose that one because cock fighting is way to popular here, even if it is underground and illegal.

You can crate them up and take them to a farm auction, see if you can make a dollar. Sometimes a farmer will take one.

Another option is once they crow put them down or put them in the stewpot.
My worrisome two are both banty, one a serama. Way too small to make a meal.
So I'll do what I have to do and give them a decent burial, like I do the girls when they come to the end of their natural life.

heartbreaking, but part of the responsibility of having animals. In the mean time I remain hopeful, no one is crowing yet, although it is early days. Mine at 10.5 weeks.

 

[PekinBantam]

This worry comes up here every single day, thread after thread. I have the same, waiting to know if two of mine are roosters.

The options most often put forth are list them on Craigslist or in the paper. Apparently someone always comes and takes them.
I won't choose that one because cock fighting is way to popular here, even if it is underground and illegal.

You can crate them up and take them to a farm auction, see if you can make a dollar. Sometimes a farmer will take one.

Another option is once they crow put them down or put them in the stewpot.
My worrisome two are both banty, one a serama. Way too small to make a meal.
So I'll do what I have to do and give them a decent burial, like I do the girls when they come to the end of their natural life.

heartbreaking, but part of the responsibility of having animals. In the mean time I remain hopeful, no one is crowing yet, although it is early days. Mine at 10.5 weeks.

Yes well, even if he doesn't crow it may still be a roster, he probably just doesn't want to get in trouble with the Alpha-rooster... And oddly enough, sometimes HENS will crow.

 

[Craftymama]

I am glad to see this thread. My sister has a wyanadott that looks like it might turn out to be a rooster. It's only 6 weeks old but it's face is starting to look red and the tail has a curve rather than starting to stick out straight.

Has any of my fellow Coloradans been to the Denver urban farmers market? They might have done good leads for roosters.

 

[lauranickerson]

Old thread, but here's a couple pictures of my pullets while they were growing, just for future people to compare them to...

This was about 20 weeks,

This was about 24 weeks, (Golden and Silver Wyandottes are the same age here)



And this was about 28 weeks, which was right before they started laying (ish).

 

[Chicktrainmom48]

No crowing yet 16+ weeks. Boy or girl? Really hoping Henrietta is not really Henry.

 

[Wyandottes7]

You definitely have a "Henrietta"!