Ameraucana Rooster w/No Comb?

[BarkerChickens]

The first picture you posted looks like a hen, but the one of "her" in the grass definitely looks like rooster in the tail region. The comb sure looks hen-ish, but that tail is LONG and it looks like he is getting saddle feathers.

 

[noitulover]

sorry, i see saddle feathers and a long, curved tail. also thicker legs, (not always a good indication, but when in conjunction with other factors, i.e. crowing, what appears to be saddle feathers coming in, a longer more curved tail, it it's true, the comb is usually a bit more pronounced on a roo, but not always. it's harder to tell with a pea comb anyways.

 

[pips&peeps]

That is a cockerel. It is either a blue wheaten or a splash wheaten, I cannot decern the coloring from the pictures, but he is pretty light.

He has a very nice pea comb. Ameraucanas do not have waddles.


ETA: pics....

Splash wheaten cockerel

Blue wheaten cockerel

 

[Smoky73]

That is most definetly a rooster

 

[swift081702]

He's supposed to be a blue wheaten or wheaten PB Ameraucana.

Thank you to all who replied! I think the consensus is that she's a he...a rooster.

Thanks again!

 

[kcpaull]

I have an Easter Egger that was supposed to be a pullet who looks similar. Lovely rooster tail, but no comb. He has saddle feathers, hackle feathers and long curved greenish black tail feathers and he's much larger than the other chicks I got at the same time. They are 3 months old now. I also have another rooster that was supposed to be a pullet who has a small bright red cap type comb with he is your typical dark red rooster with greenish black tail feathers and little spurs starting to grow on his legs.

 

[kcpaull]

This is one of my Easter Egger "pullets". No comb, but nice rooster tail, neck and saddle feathers. I'm not sure if this chicken is a rooster, a pullet or something in between.

 

[donrae]

This is one of my Easter Egger "pullets". No comb, but nice rooster tail, neck and saddle feathers. I'm not sure if this chicken is a rooster, a pullet or something in between.

Easter egger cockerel.

 

[kcpaull]

Thanks. I was pretty sure it was a cockerel, but the tiny comb threw me. I'm not used to seeing cockerels without any comb. My other EE cockerel is red and mahogany with a strawberry type comb. They both seem like nice cockerels so I hope I can keep both of them without any problems.

 

[BaileyMChicks]

I had an ameraucana rooster who didn't get much of a comb until he was 5 months old, and then sadly he had to be put down due to an illness about a month later...But he was definitely a boy. He didn't start getting saddle and hackle feathers until he was 5 months old, and his comb still wasn't a red color, and wasn't very big. I had his 'brother'(same breed and from same breeding stock, so possibly blood brothers, but i call my roosters brothers even if their not technically related. Like if they were from the same hatch or if they came from the same place, even if they are different ages, but only if they are the same breed if they weren't hatched together), and his brother had a red comb by a month and a half and had male feathers coming in by 2 months old. Sadly he also had to be put down due to the same illness that came from the breeder(I'm 99.9% sure it's mareks). So sometimes roosters can be 'late bloomers', or just don't develop a big comb. Or they can start developing very early on as well.


I also have 6 chicks that I hatched out. I have 4 boys, and two of them(one of them is half cochin bantam and half rhode island red, and the other is half cochin bantam[they have the same black cochin banty mom], a fourth D'Uccle bantam, and a fourth Japanese bantam) started crowning at 2 weeks old, and have been crowing every since. They both have huge combs as well, and they are a little over 2 months. Their names are Ed(the cochin bantam/duccle/Japanese banty cross) and Eddie(the cochin banty RIR cross). They have a sister(Ed's full sister and Eddie's half sister) named Edd, but I call her D.D.