Bantam Cochin cross Welsummer: Hen or Cockerel?

Flybum · Mar 31, 2020

Having trouble figuring it out. Think it may be a cockerel. 3 months old. I’ll show pics of him/her along with the siblings. The black one with the blond neck feathers is one one I’m curious about. The white one has started crowing. And I’m certain the other two are hens. They (the 4 of them) hatched Dec 30th. The last pic is mom and dad. Dad is the banty cochin and mom is a Welsummer, or at least half Welsummer. Thank y’all for helping out.

Flybum · Mar 31, 2020

Anybody want to take a go at this one?

sealer39 · Mar 31, 2020

I see why your asking. That’s a hard one. The only thing I see that points to a cockerel are what appears to be sickle feathers on the tail. The black feathers make it difficult to see if any of the saddle feathers are pointed.

Flybum · Mar 31, 2020

sealer39 said:
I see why your asking. That’s a hard one. The only thing I see that points to a cockerel are what appears to be sickle feathers on the tail. The black feathers make it difficult to see if any of the saddle feathers are pointed.

Ya it’s a pain. Mom has some fairly long hackle feathers and the coloring makes the hackles look pointy unless you look close and then it’s hard to tell when you compare to one of the known hens that is it’s sister for sure.

Flybum · Mar 31, 2020

These are from when it was younger and I’ve included it’s brother fro reference. Also I’m not sure if those are “sickle feathers “ on its tail or just a by product of the cross breed and taking after the Welsummer side.