BLRW Gender? *Update with new pics*

[PeakyBeaky]

6-7 weeks old? That's a rooster. Look at the feather coloration coming in-all rooster patterned.

 

[BlueCamas]

I'd say cockerel as well.

 

[kimmypie]

What makes the feather coloring rooster patterned? This I my first Wyandotte, I was so excited because he/she is a really beautiful bird.

 

[hdowden]

i change my mind now looking at it...the wing feathers are basically half and half which only happens on cockerels sorry

(the primaries,long feathers)

notice wing feathers

 

[kimmypie]

I just want to verify one last time before I rehome "him" that everyone agrees this is a roo?

 

[BlueCamas]

I'm pretty positive that you have a cockerel.

 

[lsg1007]

Just for my edification (and because I am fairly sure that my SLW hen had "half and half" primaries), but it can't be that roos are the only ones to have half and half primaries as I see plenty of hens on the internet with similar coloring. Could it be that the chick is just more relaxed and exposing its primaries more? Her is a hen with her "half and half" coloring. Is there something more you are trying to explain?

 

[lsg1007]

Or are you saying that there is more of primary feathers exposed in a roo compared to a hen

 

[hdowden]

not exactly the half and half im talking about i will try and either find or draw a pic and post on what im talking about

 

[kimmypie]

Bumping for update in first post.