Buff Orpington Hen or Roo?

[RiverSong717]

I guess...
Someday I'll have tons of roosters, though, and NOBODY can stop me!! lol!

Yessss!! Maybe you could set up a place where roosters who are unwanted can stay and live happily

 

[RiverSong717]

It’s definitely a hen,combs don’t matyer,if she was a He it would be bigger and already obviously like a rooster and probably mating and crowing right about now.

Alrighty, thanks so much! I’m so glad that ‘he’ is actually a ‘she’

 

[RiverSong717]

The reason her comb is big is probably because she is the most dominant,and because she is most ready to lay,likely her sisters aren’t.

Maybe, but they are still too young to lay. Remember they are only sixteen weeks, so maybe in another month or two

 

[TheTwoRoos]

That’s not too young,it’s rare but it’s not young,and are you sure lol,they look much more mature then that!
I guess buffs do that,I have three young pullets.

 

[RiverSong717]

That’s not too young,it’s rare but it’s not young,and are you sure lol,they look much more mature then that!
I guess buffs do that,I have three young pullets.

I just checked my calendar and it turns out they are actually almost 18 weeks, sorry about that! Buffs do get pretty big though, all of mine are already just as big as my other hens!

 

[meetthebubus]

My buffs started laying at 18 weeks i had one who was larger than her sisters with a faster growing comb

 

[TheTwoRoos]

I recently got three so I’m wondering how big they will get as my last two were small and fat and as I have seen that’s quite abnormal for them.

 

[BlackHackle]

If that was a cockerel, it should have been growing rooster feathers a while ago. It also has the stance of a hen

 

[mustangrooster]

But he/she’s only 16 weeks

Chickens can start laying at 16 weeks, it just depends on the hen.