8-week old Cherry Egger pullet or cockerel?

[ChickenExtreme]

pullet...there are no hackle or saddle feathers that I can see...and at that age you should be able to see them pretty clearly.

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[K-12 Chickens]

Here's some more photos:
Back

Tail

Body


(I'm hoping for a rooster!

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[featherz]

I can't tell on this chicken yet, but no, you would not see hackle/saddle feathers at 8 weeks. Generally it is 12+ or even later before you will see those. I've got a yard full of roosters and some of the oldest are just starting saddles at 15-16 weeks.

Right now this chicken looks pullet-ish, but give it a few more weeks to see what happens.

 

[spikennipper]

I can't tell on this chicken yet, but no, you would not see hackle/saddle feathers at 8 weeks. Generally it is 12+ or even later before you will see those. I've got a yard full of roosters and some of the oldest are just starting saddles at 15-16 weeks.

Right now this chicken looks pullet-ish, but give it a few more weeks to see what happens.

Agreed, I'd say pullet too.

 

[K-12 Chickens]

I can't tell on this chicken yet, but no, you would not see hackle/saddle feathers at 8 weeks. Generally it is 12+ or even later before you will see those. I've got a yard full of roosters and some of the oldest are just starting saddles at 15-16 weeks.

Right now this chicken looks pullet-ish, but give it a few more weeks to see what happens.

It probably varies from chicken to chicken I'm assuming. I got my first hens at 12 weeks and none of them had such sickle-shaped tail feathers. My four other Cherry Eggers all have short, wedge-shaped tails (except for one of them, which has seemed to grow in a lot slower, her tail is scraggly and rounded and her comb is redder than the others), which clearly identifys them as hens.
But I guess I'll see what happens!

 

[K-12 Chickens]

Here's one of the week-younger Cherry Eggers (7 weeks). She is the runt of the bunch, but lately has been growing in a redder comb and thicker legs than her larger sisters. Just wondered if anyone had any thoughts on this one.

(I have no idea how I catch them blinking that fast.)

 

[spikennipper]

That's a little boy.

 

[K-12 Chickens]

Guess I'll have to see as time goes on what the deal is with the first Cherry Egger I posted about, because she doesn't have as nearly as red comb as the small one does, though I have noticed her face getting quite red.

 

[K-12 Chickens]

Here's some more pics of the "possible little roo" compared to one of the others that I can confirm as a pullet.
Pullet

"Little roo"



"Little roo" is in the middle with two pullets on both sides

 

[hdowden]

Sex-link, she sure is pretty though

not a sex link. a cherry egger is created by breeding a rir to a new hampsuire. based on comb and wattle development i am leaning towards a pullet right now...re-post when this one is around 15 weeks old, by then if it is a cockerel the cockerel saddle feathers should be visiable