Any thoughts cock or hen lavender araucana?

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[donrae]

I'm not seeing anything screaming rooster at this point. How old is it?

 

[sb39]

Good question...around 6 weeks

 

[DallasCriftins]

A bit early to tell Barry here with the orange Ring was crowing at 7 weeks.
Look at the last shot before his full tail developed I couldn't tell then either till one morning..........
All these are Roos

 

[sb39]

thank you for the reply and lovely photos. I think until we either have eggs or crowing I will change my mind daily,there just too hard to tell!

 

[DallasCriftins]

This morning Barry came out of the coop with an extreme limp
I think one of the sheep may have butted him or he sprained something chasing the Hens all over the place!
I will give him a week in our recovery pen and see what happens

Sadly a similar thing happened to one of his Brothers and he did not improve so he became soup!
I don't want to do the same with Barry as he was a milestone Roo, the first Chicken ever to crow here!

 

[sb39]

Poor Barry Out of interest how old do you think you can tell with araucanas

 

[DallasCriftins]

Well ours were crowing long before they had any obvious Rooster feathers the one above with the Green leg ring was the very last to crow and we hoped was a Hen.
We called him Gerry but Gerry became Gary!

We did not realise at the time that of the 7 we hatched all but one were Roos and Gerbil the only hen does look very different now, here she is below with Leo one of this years spring Lambs