barred rock, pullet or roo?

[chicknadventure]

ok, so I was told this was a pullet, but then I thought it was a roo b/c the other BR I bought at the same time is now looking very different than this bird.it is about 4 months old in these pics taken today. the thing that is throwing me back to pullet is that there are no spurs, just "nubbins"

 

[nurse_turtle]

That's a hen who is maturing and considered to be at the POL (point of lay). She's gearing up to lay a beautiful big brown egg for you!

 

[chicknadventure]

wow! very awesome! what a surprise....she was almost dinner a few nights ago :/ I decided to check the spurs one more time....

 

[nurse_turtle]

Instead of eating her for dinner, she's gonna make you some breakfast! What a deal!

 

[anderson8505]

PULLET Stephanie, PULLET!! Eggs on the near horizon!

 

[speckledhen]

Just an FYI

Roosters don't even get spurs until they are close to a year old so you cannot go by that.

 

[JesseS]

Thats definately a pullet! It looks like she's going to be laying soon. And also, rooster don't have spurs until they are about a year old.

 

[chicknadventure]

Oh well. I did not realize that first took so long to develop. I guess I won't use that anymore to sex my chickens hahaha or I could be eating a lot of hens woops! Hubby is at lowes now to get tbe nesting box. Any suggesrio.s to teach the chickens what it is? We thought we had several months.....