Any chance this is a pullet?

[ZoeStevens]

I bought this little guy yesterday as a random older chick, auracana x dominique. When I got a good look at him, he was a lot bigger than I was expecting, so I'm hoping he is old enough to be sexed.

I somehow suspect that someone packaged up and auctioned off a budding cockerel as an unsexed chick but maybe I'm just cynical. He's also got crooked toes?



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Thanks for your help!

 

[ZoeStevens]

Le bump?

 

[donrae]

I think it's a rooster. And I don't think it's part Dominique, or it wouldn't have that straight comb.

 

[Happy Chooks]

Absolutely zero chance of that chicken being a pullet.

 

[cgmccary]

crooked toes look like the kind that are an incubator issue (perhaps not enough humidity) & hatching took longer causing crooked toe(s) -- since he is a cross, likely not an inbreeding (genetic) issue.

 

[hdowden]

cockerel all the way

 

[ZoeStevens]

Ohh, people are such jerks! Oh well, that's auctions for ya I suppose.

What are you seeing that tells you it is a cockerel? I noticed the high trail and shimmery feathers (they look like small versions of my EE roo's tail feathers) and the comb, but I never know, as some of my hens are iridescent and have big combs. He also just looks like a guy.

Do you think the toes will straighten in time?

 

[Happy Chooks]

The coloring, comb, tail, sheen, thick legs, etc all point to cockerel. And no, the toes will not straighten out.

 

[farmerChef]

also looks like it has something wrong with wings?

 

[ZoeStevens]

also looks like it has something wrong with wings?

Like what? He had just come out of his box and was a bit ruffled at this point... At any rate, he can fly.