Clarification on gender and maybe a guess at breed?

[Poultry mum]

Has the weather been better?

I will try and get a photo today

 

[Poultry mum]

@TheOddOneOut this is the best I can get atm…. There’s no sign of male hackles or saddles or sickles that I can see… will get photos of mum later to compare the 2 …

 

[Rhodebar Lover]

@TheOddOneOut this is the best I can get atm…. There’s no sign of male hackles or saddles or sickles that I can see… will get photos of mum later to compare the 2 …

The circles parts are male saddles and shoulder feathers They look different in barred birds.

 

[Poultry mum]

The circles parts are male saddles and shoulder feathers They look different in barred birds.
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Ok I take this on board… but at this age should he not have more defined wattles and comb? All my boys from a young age had VERY defined wattles and combs… or could the lack of wattles and comb be a result of the cross breed?? Mums comb is very small and so are her wattles.. could he just take on her traits rather than taking on possible dad? This then leads to my next question on who could be possible dad? ….

 

[Poultry mum]

Lol this bird is starting to remind me of the debate we all had with MR Audrey (RIP) and how he showed no signs until he was 6-8months old … how quickly his bright red saddles and hackles grew and then the sudden “automatic” crowing lol …

 

[Rhodebar Lover]

Ok I take this on board… but at this age should he not have more defined wattles and comb? All my boys from a young age had VERY defined wattles and combs… or could the lack of wattles and comb be a result of the cross breed?? Mums comb is very small and so are her wattles.. could he just take on her traits rather than taking on possible dad? This then leads to my next question on who could be possible dad? ….

Precisely. He appears to have a modified pea comb which means that it will be smaller in size. Pea combs are dominant and from the sounds of it, his mom has one too. Since they are dominant, his mom's comb would likely trump whatever comb his dad had. Also his comb isn't too out of wack for a pea combed breed Here are pictures of my three month old Brahma cockerels and their comb sizes!

 

[Poultry mum]

Precisely. He appears to have a modified pea comb which means that it will be smaller in size. Pea combs are dominant and from the sounds of it, his mom has one too. Since they are dominant, his mom's comb would likely trump whatever comb his dad had. Also his comb isn't too out of wack for a pea combed breed Here are pictures of my three month old Brahma cockerels and their comb sizes!
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Aaahhh ok… that makes since… I’ll get some photos of mum… this may help…

 

[Poultry mum]

@Rhodebar Lover and just like that I answered my own question….

Googles answer and baby photos… you can clearly see the sexed link white dot on his head (his sister had no white dot.. she sadly passed away a few days after these photos were taken)

While I know he’s not purebred I’m guessing the principal is the same?

 

[NatJ]

@Rhodebar Lover and just like that I answered my own question….

Googles answer and baby photos… you can clearly see the sexed link white dot on his head (his sister had no white dot.. she sadly passed away a few days after these photos were taken)

While I know he’s not purebred I’m guessing the principal is the same?

That only works if the mother has barring and the father does not.
When you posted photos of a bunch of roosters, I did not see white barring on any of them, but I couldn't be completely sure about some of the palest ones.
So maybe?

With a Barred Plymouth Rock mother, you might have a sexlink there, depending on what genes the father has. If the father does NOT have the gene for white barring, then the barred chick would have to be a male. But if the father has, or might have, white barring, then the white barring on this chick does not tell us what sex it is.

Barred chick:
Father is not the splash silkie (chick would have crest, and would be blue-based instead of black.)
I don't think I see barring on any of the roosters (hard to tell on the palest few).
But if the father is not-barred, then the barred chick must be a male because of coloring

 

[Poultry mum]

@NatJ @Rhodebar Lover @TheOddOneOut here are the photos of mum…