Australorp Hen really a Rooster?!?!!!!!

LBradyAtX

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We adopted an Australorp a couple months ago and named her Kylo Hen. Two weeks ago her comb & waddle grew deep red, and I got excited that an egg was soon to come. She goes and sits on the other ladies' eggs but I can't tell if any are her own. This week her comb & waddle almost doubled in size. Look at the size of that thing! She's also started mounting the smaller hens, but I know some hens do that for dominance. No signs of crowing, and her feathers seem rounded, but a lot of her butt feathers were missing when we got her so I just can't tell. Is she a growing Hen with a huge comb, or a young rooster not showing his saddle feathers yet???
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Looks like a hen to me. Some hens have large combs and mount other birds as a display of dominance (I've had several Wyandotte bantam hens that did so).
 

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