Almost embarrassed to post! hen or roo?

[sevenbabychicks]

Wow, what a tricky bird! At first I was going to vote pullet, but after reading the other replies and looking more closely at the pics, I'm going to go with roo... tentatively. Its tail seems off for a pullet - stubbier, like its still waiting for the long feathers to grow in; the shoulder areas of its wings look a little darker to me, and its hackle feathers look long and thin in one of the pics.

Keep us updated!

 

[ESofVA]

I think roo. I had several roos 5 months old. All LF except my Silver Sebright. He is the one that crowed. After a while though, 1 of the 3 BR roos tried crowing and grew hackle and saddle feathers, also longer tail feathers. The other 2 BR roos didn't. I also had 2 dark Cornish roos. one grew long tail feathers...the other didn't. We processed the 3 BR and the Crornish w/o the tail feathers. While he was butchering them my husband checked out the testes of each...don't laugh...we are mammalogists and have had to do such things with many different animals (inc measuring and weighing them!) in the past.
The crowing roo had testes almost 3x the size of the other roos. They were all the same age. He was the dominant roo and his presence kept the others from developing those long feathers, crowing, etc. sortof of like..."Don't look at me. I am just another hen and you don't need to attack me!"

 

[Poupoulles]

I feel like I should start a pool... Either a tiny egg will appear or I will hear that screen door squawk that is the first crow. I will post back when i do!

 

[bellanonna]

I'm learning so much about how to tel one from another, lol. I can't wait to find out about your pullroo!

 

[Wax Myrtle]

Any light shed, yet?

 

[ReikiStar]

Maybe it's one of those hermaphroditic chickens? All chickens (birds) start out as male, which is why all chickens have spur numbs. During the critical time of sex determination in the egg, sometimes things don't happen cleanly and you get these rare dual gendered birds.

It's a possibility.

 

[farmerChef]

do you have an updated pic?

 

[gander111]

Looks like a pullet to me!