8 week old Australorp - gender?

[Minanora]

I just can't tell, I need help. Is this a pullet or a cockerel? The Australorp, black chicken.

 

[HorseGirlAbby]

I'm leaning cockerel, because those wattles are bright red and he has big feet. This better not be like the Barnevelder...

 

[Tookie]

I feel like this one could go either way, I'd give it some more time.

 

[Minanora]

Tinki has it out for the Australorp. She picks on her pretty hard. That photo of them together, she was having a stare down, then nipped the australorp on the back of the neck so many times that she took off running.

I hope it's a pullet. The Barnevelder goes to his new home next week. If I have another rooster I'll be bummed.

 

[Australorpfamily]

I just can't tell, I need help. Is this a pullet or a cockerel? The Australorp, black chicken.

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I'd go with pullet. Granted all ours showed big and red by 3-4 weeks, I have lots of photos on my posts of our BAs if you search my name and Australorp. And I say that bc by 8 weeks is when we donated them to the auction. The boys were fighting and starting to crow.

 

[Ilovemychicks08]

Im gonna say wait a little longer and repost it could go either way.

 

[Minanora]

This morning they were very interested in the camera.

 

[fuzzi]

Pretty!

And I don't want to hazard a guess.

 

[Minanora]

Pretty!

And I don't want to hazard a guess.

I can understand that completely. Lol.

I think it's a pullet about 80% of the time I watch them. Whatever it is, it's the dumbest chicken of the group. Not to offend anyone, or the breed. She's just stupid.

 

[fuzzi]

I can understand that completely. Lol.

I think it's a pullet about 80% of the time I watch them. Whatever it is, it's the dumbest chicken of the group. Not to offend anyone, or the breed. She's just stupid.

It's probably a pullet, then...


(I can say that, being female myself!)