13 week Dominique-gender?

[sheeshshe]

She is either well endowed, or a he. LOL. I don't think I see any saddle feathers, but the comb is just so bumpy and it looks like the rooster combs that I see online. My other one doesn't have a comb quite like that, it is smooth.
I have another thread going about when a rooster first crows, but haven't really got many responses on gender opinion.

 

[Happy Chooks]

100% cockerel.

 

[sheeshshe]

Is there saddle feathers coming in? Can you tell>?

 

[speckledhen]

This Dominique is giving mixed signals, to tell the truth.

It has male coloring (very light),

small though very pink comb (bumps mean nothing-that's how a rose comb should be),

however, at this time, I do not see any of the saddle or hackle feathers associated with a cockerel showing. By 13 weeks of age, my Barred Rock males have very definite saddle feathers showing.

If you part the back feathers to see the new feathers coming in, if you see very shiny, skinny, pointy saddle feathers, you have a late blooming male. The body shape even seems more pullet-like than male to me right now.

You may have a later blooming cockerel, if you go on color alone. I have, however, had barred pullets who were that light-my late BR hen, Lexie, was one of them. Everyone kept mistaking her for a cockerel until she was almost 12 weeks old.


Pullets rarely have that much color in the comb by that age, but some do. Just depends. '

If you forced me to call it, I'd say a late blooming cockerel because of color combined with comb redness, even though the body shape is more pullet-like, IMO, but some just fool you and this one isn't being fair with us, LOL.


Here is a 13 week old Barred Rock cockerel I owned years ago--you can see the long saddle feathers already on him:


By the same token, these 12 week old BR pullets are the usual pullet color--and you can compare comb redness, too:

 

[sheeshshe]

what about the legs? they're supposed to have yellow legs if they're roosters right? in the second picture you can see my other one in the background, it too has the black legs. if legs have nothing to do with it then oh well LOL I'm just confused,. both have bright red combs and faces.

 

[sheeshshe]

OK, so if I go on color... both are the same coloring. so both could be roosters. and both are bright red like that too.

 

[speckledhen]

You can't really go solely by leg color. Yours does not have bright yellow clean colored legs, no, but some males also have some slight dark on theirs.

As I said, this one has conflicting traits. You could have a strange pullet, is all. I hope so! I have had, and she caused TONS of confusion!


ETA: If you look at my pics above, you'll see a hint of dark on the leg fronts of my BR male, but much more on the pullets. You will just have to wait and see. It's not always cut and dried with sexing.

 

[sheeshshe]

So funny! Thanks for all of that <3

I guess I'm going to go with 2 pullets for now. They're both bright red, both look exactly the same color, same color legs, etc. just one has that different comb. the bigger comb. I just looked and I don't see any pointy feathers coming in.

Now my friend I believe has 2 BR roos. they are much lighter colored than my dominiques, and their combs are big and they're just 8 weeks old.

 

[speckledhen]

Well, you can always revert to my perfect, no-fail sexing method... the "Wait and See" method, LOL.

 

[sheeshshe]

uh huh! I think that is the method I shall go with hehehe.