Another SLW hen/rooster question

[tkc]

This is my first post here. I bought three chicks from a local feed store about three weeks ago. I've been reading through a lot of the posts here, and I believe that one of my chicks, Robin, the silver laced wyandotte, is a rooster. She/he is growing more slowly than the other two chicks, Batman, a black australorp, and Alfred, an easter egger. I would appreciate some second opinions based on the photos below.

I apologize for the poor photos. She is pretty quick and hard to photograph. Please let me know what you think. Thanks in advance for the feedback.

 

[AinaWGSD]

I'll be keeping an eye on this thread. I don't really have an answer for your question, but she/he looks JUST like my 2 week old SLW. Like you, I'm really suspecting that "Gertrude" is actually a boy because while all of the other chicks have almost all of their wing feathers and very definite little tails, "she" is still mostly baby fluff and I have heard that roosters tend to feather in more slowly. I'm sort of hoping that she's just a late bloomer, although if she's really a he then I guess we'll see how tolerant our neighbors are of roosters.

 

[Xanthro]

Chicks grow at different rates. My two SLW were a little smaller and feathered more slowly than most of my Easter Eggers.

 

[WhiteMountainsRanch]

SLW males feather more slowly than the girls, but tend to be bigger... just my experience... hard to tell when they are so young!

Cute baby you got there!

 

[lovinlife]

My SLW pullets also developed redder combs and waddles earlier than the other chicks. It'll be hard to tell until the adult feathers start coming in. There were a couple threads on here showing the difference between the pullets and roos.

Here's a photo record of my pullets, hope it helps.

3 weeks old:

4 weeks old:

5 weeks old:

6 weeks old:

7 weeks old:

I haven't taken pics recently, but they're 19 weeks old now and definitely pullets.

 

[tkc]

Thanks for the feedback, everyone. I guess there really isn't a good way to tell at this point other than to wait her/him out.

Lovinlife, thanks for all the photos. They're very pretty. I can see that your pullets were much further along than my little one is at three weeks.

 

[lovinlife]

Here they are at two weeks:

Hope it helps!

 

[AinaWGSD]

Wow, what a difference a week makes! Good to know that other SLW pullets have been so slow to feather in, yours at two weeks look about like my Gertrude. I guess the OP and I will just have to be patient and wait for our late bloomers to catch up with the rest of our chicks.