Almost embarrassed to post! hen or roo?

[StarLover21]

That is tough! Well, it's either a slow developing roo or a fast developing pullet, but I'm leaning more towards roo.

 

[thomaschickens]

Wow that is a weird chicken! I am going to throw my vote out there and say roo. My BO girl who is just under 6 months old started laying about 2 weeks ago (which I thought was pretty late). But she seems more stumpier (shorter and wider) than you chicken (kind of like me

). Also your'e right that the body posture does say roo. And in one of the pictures he has a look in his eye that does not say pullet. I'm told that's called the stink eye lol. I suppose it's possible that since you do have the very macho rooster already, maybe he's trying to stay under the radar

Keep us posted

 

[ChickenExtreme]

Closer to 5 months old. Maybe a better question would be how is it she is at POL when all her sisters are not. I think what throws me off is the size difference and redness of comb. Now these are from an uncontrolled hatch- just a broody mama who sat on a clutch of (mostlly) her eggs. So maybe egg age accounts for the difference. But they all hatched within a day or two of each other and this one is just a bronto-chicken I guess.
There is another from the same hatch that IS a cockerel and he is also large with a dark comb. But his tail and hackle feathers are more obvious. He is a mix breed and I am pretty sure this one is a straight buff rock. No sign of crowing but then if I was a young cockerel with a huge Daddy roo in residence I would stay on the down-low too.

All chickens don't mature equally. And at POL she will seem bigger or be a bit bigger and her comb will get redder at POL and the waddles and comb increase in size as well, sometimes seems overnight, lol.

 

[ChickenExtreme]

at 6 months she should be squatting by now, I would think.

Not necessarily. Hens can take up 5 to 7 months to start laying.

 

[Time-Out]

I agree with the eye saying roo, but the body looks hen-ish to me :S

I'm just going to sit on the fence here until you separate it with some known grls and see if IT starts showing off!

 

[bargain]

Just like humans, genes can play different gifts to poultry siblings. One might grow faster or be larger or smaller than the resst. I agree with the rest that it look pulletish, but time will tell!!! Good luck!

 

[smarsh]

I have to disagree. I see a cockerel (stringy hackle feathers and the beginning of a curved rooster tail.)

i agree to disagree. that is a roo. sometimes chickens are slow to mature. A pullet would have a longer tail. look at the body shape.

 

[flewdacoop]

if its a roo at 24 weeks old you should see some sort of spike but i dont in the third pic so i am going to say a pullet but not 100 percent sure.. good looking either way

 

[aoxa]

if its a roo at 24 weeks old you should see some sort of spike but i dont in the third pic so i am going to say a pullet but not 100 percent sure.. good looking either way

No saddle feathers apparent at 24 weeks -going with pullet who is almost ready to lay.

 

[ruby m w]

99/100 % sure 2 pullets at POL very red comb