Almost embarrassed to post! hen or roo?

[Poupoulles]

I am an experienced chicken farmer who usually knows who is who and what is what.
But I cannot figure this chicken out!! It is a buff plymouth rock. Its the biggest BY FAR of its siblings (six months old raised by my broody mama). It acts like a roo, has a comb that is much redder than its sisters, it carries itself like a roo. But its feathers are like a hen. Is there something I don't get? I wish I had a pic with the demure little henlets that are from the same hatch/mama. They are all smaller and have little pink combs and flutter their eyelashes. But then the Daddy of this flock is a monster roo named "King Midas" so maybe that set of genes has just popped up...

 

[hdowden]

thats a pullet at POL

 

[ChickenExtreme]

thats a pullet at POL

X 2

 

[Anilee]

Definitely a pullet!

 

[ramirezframing]

how old?

 

[spikennipper]

I think they said 6 months if they are 100% sure of the age then that's 100% pullet

and yes POL!

 

[juliechick]

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

 

[Firefighter Chick]

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

 

[donrae]

I think they said 6 months if they are 100% sure of the age then that's 100% pullet

and yes POL!

I don't see the age in the OP

I'm also thinking pullet at pol, but age will be the deciding factor.
I'm not seeing saddle or hackle feathers.
Not every hen squats.

 

[Poupoulles]

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.