Can pullet also hump?

riverdreamer

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I got this black coper maran supposedly a pullet couple weeks ago. I assume she is about 3 months old. She is aggressive towards my dozen other mixed assortment of pullets. This morning I found her jumping on my Americauna pullet and trying to pull hackle out. It seems like a rooster behavior.

Can pullet also have this kind of behavior or I'm simplest duped gotten a cockerel?

Thanks!
 
I'm pretty sure that is a rooster. I don't think pullets get the red in their shoulders/wings like that.
 
In my (limited) experience raising day old Blue and Black Copper Marans, it has always been pretty obvious by 3-4 weeks which were girls and boys, combs always larger and redder in the boys fairly early on--at that age I'd agree, you got duped, he's a he!
(although it is not unusual for a hen to take over the dominant traits of a rooster if there isn't one there to begin with, including the jumping of the other girls, more as a dominance thing though, not a reproduction thing...but at such I young age as yours I'd definitely say it's true testosterone at work
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