Cockerel or (aggressive) Pullet?

[PolloGal]

Someone just sold me this ‘girl’ and I wanted to be sure it is a pullet. She seems rather ‘aggressive’ for a hen…not that I have cared for many. She keeps going after the other ones and they ‘cower’. Thanks for your help.

 

[Lovely Lettie]

Someone just sold me this ‘girl’ and I wanted to be sure it is a pullet. She seems rather ‘aggressive’ for a hen…not that I have cared for many. She keeps going after the other ones and they ‘cower’. Thanks for your help.

She's definitely a female. Do you have a male in your flock?

 

[PolloGal]

She's definitely a female. Do you have a male in your flock?

No. No male. Can you tell me what to look at on her…so I could have told she was a girl? Still learning. Thanks.

 

[Lovely Lettie]

No. No male. Can you tell me what to look at on her…so I could have told she was a girl? Still learning. Thanks.

If that is the case some hen's will show domination behaviour.
For one she has no saddle or hackle feathers, also her comb and wattles are very small and pale.

 

[HollowOfWisps]

Hen. Everytime you introduce a new chicken the existing pecking order gets re-established. Being the new chicken in the coop in a strange place she sounds like she might be scared trying to get to the top of the food chain before she ends up at the bottom. Did you do an introductory period where she was separated from the others so she could see them, but no one could touch each other?

 

[PolloGal]

Hen. Everytime you introduce a new chicken the existing pecking order gets re-established. Being the new chicken in the coop in a strange place she sounds like she might be scared trying to get to the top of the food chain before she ends up at the bottom. Did you do an introductory period where she was separated from the others so she could see them, but no one could touch each other?

I know to do that, but didn’t in this case because i bought more than one and they were all together in a box. Just thought they ‘grew up’ together, but maybe that’s not so. I will do an introductory period for her now. Thanks so much.