BLRW

[CoconutCoffee]

A while back I made a thread about a BLRW possible (likely) cockerel. Turned 14 weeks yesterday. Still no sign of hackle or saddle feathers that I can see though I'm terrible at spotting it until they're painfully obvious. Here are photos I took tonight (sorry for any blurriness, he gets skittish), if anyone else can spot them. On Nov 12 I took photos of what I thought were saddle feathers coming in but I assume they would be grown out by now if that was the case.

 

[TheOddOneOut]

Pics are bad, but it’s male.

 

[TheOddOneOut]

Sorry, didn’t mean that as an insult, it sounded like one. I was just noting that pics were a little hard to see in.
But I do believe it is male.

 

[MGG]

A while back I made a thread about a BLRW possible (likely) cockerel. Turned 14 weeks yesterday. Still no sign of hackle or saddle feathers that I can see though I'm terrible at spotting it until they're painfully obvious. Here are photos I took tonight (sorry for any blurriness, he gets skittish), if anyone else can spot them. On Nov 12 I took photos of what I thought were saddle feathers coming in but I assume they would be grown out by now if that was the case.

100% a cockerel. I raise BLRWs and they do indeed mature strangely, but once they reach this stage it's obvious.

 

[CoconutCoffee]

Sorry, didn’t mean that as an insult, it sounded like one. I was just noting that pics were a little hard to see in.
But I do believe it is male.

Oh no worries at all, I know they're bad, lol. They were the best I could get with this one. It's the most skittish blrw I have and was running away as I tried to take photos. Doesn't help that it was getting dark too. I can try again in a day or so.
I'm still keeping if its a rooster though I want it to just be obvious already with shiny saddles and pointy hackles. Then I can stop being in denial about it lol

 

[Poultrybonkers]

Def a male you can see his neck feathers are darker

 

[TheOddOneOut]

Oh no worries at all, I know they're bad, lol. They were the best I could get with this one. It's the most skittish blrw I have and was running away as I tried to take photos. Doesn't help that it was getting dark too. I can try again in a day or so.
I'm still keeping if its a rooster though I want it to just be obvious already with shiny saddles and pointy hackles. Then I can stop being in denial about it lol

Lol, yeah! I bet he’ll be pretty as an adult, too.

 

[CoconutCoffee]

100% a cockerel. I raise BLRWs and they do indeed mature strangely, but once they reach this stage it's obvious.

I wish it was more obvious to me. Never been good at sexing birds as it never really mattered. In my initial flock, the surprise rooster started crowing at 4 weeks and I've rarely had baby chicks since.

Def a male you can see his neck feathers are darker

The neck feathers on the pullets are darker too. His just dont look pointy to me.

Lol, yeah! I bet he’ll be pretty as an adult, too.

Definitely. This is my first time with blrws and the pullets look great. Theres a bit of blue lacing on the chest of the one in question.

 

[Egghead_Jr]

Note the red upper wing. Tell tale sign of cockerels.

 

[CoconutCoffee]

Note the red upper wing. Tell tale sign of cockerels.

Yeah, people have said that the red coloring is typical of cockerels and its been slow to feather out. I know there are coloring/patterns that are considered "typical" of cockerels or pullets, wish this one was somehow an exception to those rules. Wyandottes not being sex linked lets me keep that up. I thought after a month the possible saddle feathers I saw would be more noticeable. "He" reddened up a little faster but the wattles/comb haven't really gotten bigger or redder. I keep waiting on hackle, saddle, and/or a crow from the BLRW and a langshan.