14 Week Old SLW Gender?

[JFreeman]

Silver Laced Wyandotte is supposed to be a hen. I ordered her for my mom from McMurray Hatchery, and I think she is a cockerel. However! I wanted to make sure by asking some egg-spert (haha) opinions.








Also, I have come up on a fact of my own flock and wanted to know if this holds true to all chickens. Every one of my cockerels around the age of 10 weeks start getting a greenish sheen on their saddle and tail feathers. If there is black, hold it in indirect sunlight, and I see the green tinting over the black. It's very pretty! Anyway, do ALL cockerels get that, or is it just certain breeds?

KK, Thanks a bunch.

 

[lazypifarm]

My vote is definitely a cockerel, with those pointed saddle feathers!

 

[JimArcher]

Looks like a hen to me.How old is it? If it has very pointed feathers on the saddle and there is a greenish tinge to the black, then I think it might be a rooster. I vote hen (pullet). It just looks like a female head etc..

 

[Kev]

I don't see pointy tipped feathers.

It does not show the mostly white feathers on wings, back and saddles of a silver lace roo.

This is a pullet.

 

[BantamLover21]

I think its a pullet. The coloring is typical of a female Silver-Laced Wyandotte, the comb/wattles aren't that developed, and I don't see any obviously pointed saddle and hackle feathers.

 

[donrae]

Pullet. At 14 weeks the males are starting to color out differently, with the male pattern for lacing.

 

[CedarAcres]

Looks like a pullet to me.

 

[browning6]

pullet. the pattern is usually different with the roos.

 

[PeakyBeaky]

100% pullet. If it was a cockerel, it would have more wattle/comb. And, yes-sometimesboys do get more of the green shine to the tail feathers, but it just depends on the bird.

 

[lazypifarm]

I've been outvoted. Pullet it is! Congrats!