14 week Blue Wyandotte & Blue Andalusian: Pullets or Roosters???

[ScottsValleyBlue]

New to BYC and first time raising chickens. I have 6 chickens; 2 Buff Orpington, 2 Barred Plymouth Rock, 1 Blue Wyandotte and 1 Blue Andalusian. I think I have a least 4 hens but I am not sure about the 2 Blues. They are all about 14 weeks now;

 

[Gumby the gelding]

The one in the first picture looks like a hen.

 

[ScottsValleyBlue]

The one in the first picture looks like a hen.

Thanks! I posted 2 pics of each chicken for a better view of their heads. Top 2 pics are the Blue Andalusian, bottom 2 are the Blue Wyandotte

 

[Gumby the gelding]

Thanks! I posted 2 pics of each chicken for a better view of their heads

Ok! The other one looks like it’s probably a hen too!

 

[OrpingtonManiac]

Both in the first pic look like hens, and the blue wyandotte looks like a cockerel to me

 

[ScottsValleyBlue]

Both in the first pic look like hens, and the blue wyandotte looks like a cockerel to me

Thanks for the guidance; what are the telltale signs that the Blue Wyandotte is a cockerel?

 

[OrpingtonManiac]

Thanks for the guidance; what are the telltale signs that the Blue Wyandotte is a cockerel?

For his age, his wattles and combs are very large, and a little redder than a pullets would be.

 

[AinaWGSD]

Thanks! I posted 2 pics of each chicken for a better view of their heads. Top 2 pics are the Blue Andalusian, bottom 2 are the Blue Wyandotte

I think you have that backwards. The bird in the top 2 pics has a rose comb, which would make her your wyandotte.

The wyandotte is a pullet, a male would have a much larger combination at 14 weeks.

The andalusian I'm not quite 100% certain of, but I think is also a pullet. Male specific pointy saddle feathers start coming in around 12 weeks and I don't see any here. Plus Mediterranean breed hens tend to have large single combs, this one would not be an unusually large size for a pullet. And I would expect a 14 week old cockerel to have much more vibrantly red comb. So far, all these signs point to pullet.

 

[ScottsValleyBlue]

I think you have that backwards. The bird in the top 2 pics has a rose comb, which would make her your wyandotte.

The wyandotte is a pullet, a male would have a much larger combination at 14 weeks.

The andalusian I'm not quite 100% certain of, but I think is also a pullet. Male specific pointy saddle feathers start coming in around 12 weeks and I don't see any here. Plus Mediterranean breed hens tend to have large single combs, this one would not be an unusually large size for a pullet. And I would expect a 14 week old cockerel to have much more vibrantly red comb. So far, all these signs point to pullet.

Interesting: I guess we could have been mixed up from the beginning . Below is a picture of the birds as chicks I thought was the Andalusian (rose comb + black eyeliner), perched on the right;

And then here on the left;

 

[AinaWGSD]

Yeah, the blue andalusian has a single comb. Wyandottes are supposed to have a rose comb, but since single comb is recessive and there were single comb birds used in the development of the breed single combs do sometimes pop up (especially in hatchery stock).

Here is my blue laced red wyandotte pullet at the same age for comparison. You can see her wattles are slightly smaller, but the same color as your pullet. And a good comparison for a single comb at that age in my RIR. Her comb is smaller, but the same color (actually a little more red) as your andalusian.