BLRW surprise - gender?

[dreamofwinter]

Well, here I am on the hen-or-roo thread, because I'm too impatient to just wait another several weeks and see!
My surprise chick, the apple of my eye, is a Blue-Laced Red Wyandotte. I've always figured, being a surprise, the odds of them being a rooster were pretty high. I've never had a BLRW before so I just don't know enough about what the different stages look like - and I don't have any others to compare this one to.

These photos are from yesterday, 9 weeks old. Compared to my two Brahma roo chicks of the same age, this one doesn't seem to have the same behaviors or the same upright stance, but I'm not sure how much breed factors in there.

(Bonus shot of my Barred Rock's fluffy pantaloons)

If I've ended up with three cockerels instead of two I will definitely need to start planning for a little bachelor flock! Thanks all

 

[SpotTheCat]

Cockerel

 

[Salixx]

I’m going to say cockerel. I just took a picture of one of my almost 11 week GLW girls and she barely has a comb and wattles.

Bachelor flock time!

 

[SCMommaHen]

I believe you have a roo there. Here is mine at the same age.

 

[Frazzemrat1]

Cockerel, sounds like the most subservient one.

 

[Painted Calls]

Cockerel.

 

[LadiesAndJane]

Sorry, you have a boy there. Wyandottes can be hard to sex, but your boy has pretty large wattles already.

 

[dreamofwinter]

Thank you all! It's fine if he's a boy (he's been named Frank Henry since day 3 regardless). Now to start planning for an auxiliary coop and run for the bachelors... or maybe he becomes my house chicken, he's always been the best lap chicken of them.

 

[dreamofwinter]

Posting a followup - Frank Henry did indeed grow into a lovely cockerel. He's the boss of them all but a sweet lovely marshmallow with his humans. I couldn't ask for more!
Here he is last week, age 7 months.

 

[WIchickMama]

He is beautiful!!!