Buff or Buffy Orpington?

[cheirogloss]

We bought this bird last week with the rest of our first-time flock. The sales guys said she was a Buff Orpington hen, and I would have agreed at the time. Now that "she" has lived with us for a week and had some good food, she is looking oddly masculine. What do you think? Hen or roo? And.....it has to be a cross, it doesn't look like a true BO to me.

It doesn't crow and it doesn't have spurs if that helps. My DH is calling her Lola, like from the song about the drag queen

 

[tdgill]

Buff

I have the sweetest buff roo

 

[The Chicken People]

I think she but I been wrong before!okay so maybe its buff!

 

[HorseFeathers]

It does look like a cross. I'm thinking hen because of the feathers, but without age it's hard to tell. Do you know how old s/he is?

 

[cheirogloss]

We were told "she" was a laying hen, so I am guessing more than 26 wks. Her comb and wattle are really red, so it seems like a plausible age to me.

 

[Mary Of Exeter]

I'm thinking Buffy

 

[rodriguezpoultry]

Yeah...that's a cockerel.

 

[HorseFeathers]

Hmmm.... looks like a tricky one. A cockerel would be crowing by now though, right? So personally, my vote is pullet.

 

[rodriguezpoultry]

Pullets don't have pointed saddle feathers.

 

[HorseFeatherz NV]

My vote is Buff.

I see pointy saddle feathers, and the very beginnings of a few hackle feathers.