A hen or a cockerel? 8 days shy from its 6-month birthday. Other hens of its age already started laying eggs from month 5. I'm worried. Help!!

[Rose Quartz]

@LaFleche what male feathering are you referring to? My eyes can't see everything in a picture, but the saddles look rounded to me.
At OP the feathers in front of the tail on a hen are rounded, but on a cockeral would be pointed. The shine on the tail can be on a pullet ot cockeral.

The hackle feathers are very pointed around the bottom.

I've seen slower developing roosters look like this before. 6 months is a really long time, but i've seen one look the same way at a year, it never developed properly and never crowed.

 

[Party_Chicken]

At first glance I was going to say hen but I saw its feathers and those are shiny but they don’t point like normal rooster feathers. Wait a few more weeks to see if it crows then update us

 

[LaFleche]

@LaFleche what male feathering are you referring to? My eyes can't see everything in a picture, but the saddles look rounded to me.
At OP the feathers in front of the tail on a hen are rounded, but on a cockeral would be pointed. The shine on the tail can be on a pullet ot cockeral.

I marked the areas in red:

His male saddle feathers just started to grow in, soon they will be much longer and easier to spot.