Cockerel or pullets? Lavender Orpington

[sawilliams]

Thank you. Maybe I'm just hoping to much. The person i got him and the chick from is a friend and she's so sure its a male part of me doesn't want her to wrong. I mean of course he's suppose to be or first rooster, and I know if he isn't and the chick isn't finding roosters is easy. But he such a pretty and living bird too, he would make a great rooster. But i can hold out how for the chick it's about 5 weeks and has bright red waddles right now, but it's feathering so much slower then the feed store chicks is kinda funny, like ugly duckling funny.

I was hoping I would start to here early crows by now from him, and I thought there might have been a few but I know one of my older girls does a cackle crow and i might have mistook it for an early cockerel crow

 

[sawilliams]

With how red the comb is if it is a pullet shouldn't he(she) be ready to lay? I had a mystery egg last week but it was lighter then I think he's breed lays so i chalked it up to a color glitch from one of my other girls. I haven't noticed any new eggs yet though i did catch him coming out of the nests last week also and my eve count is dropping due to some having started thier molt.

I mean i guess the signs are there for a pullet ready to lay I just haven't wanted to see them

 

[oldhenlikesdogs]

Generally Orpingtons start laying at 5-6 months of age so it's a bit early for it to start laying. Generally by that age a rooster would have a comb three times larger than yours does.

This is my first year with lavender Orpingtons. Both sexed pullets of mine have bigger combs than the buff Orpingtons so it must be normal for the variety. I had though initially one was a rooster because of it's comb but it hasn't gotten much bigger.

Orpingtons are slow to mature, so yours could suddenly become more rooster looking, but usually the roosters also are slow to grow in their tail feathers and will generally have a more messy look than the pullets.

 

[WVduckchick]

A pair of mine at 17 weeks. You have a pretty pullet there. It could still be several weeks before you see an egg from her though.

 

[lilmarie84]

I only have buffs mine are 17 weeks as well but at 10 weeks his comb and waddles were very defined thats him as my avatar

 

[drumstick diva]

pullet

 

[sawilliams]

I don't know any more I guess at this piont im either going to have to wait till I have 6 brown eggs in the same day (to verify it's laying), or wait for it to crow.

It's just hard becuse my girls are starting to molt so eggs are slowing down and by time they pick back up ill have 6-7 more brown layers

 

[WVduckchick]

My lav orps lay pinkish eggs
2nd egg, bottom row

 

[sawilliams]

Sorry i guess I should have clarified my egg colors. I have 1 brown 4 tan 1 olive and 4 green egg colors currently (plus a spotted cream every once in a while that I think is a color fluke from on of the tans) and one of the greens isn't laying becuase she's brooding the chicks.

Then I have a lavender cockerel/pullet, a lavender chick which i think might be a cockerel and 6 sex link production red cross chicks

 

[WVduckchick]

Sorry i guess I should have clarified my egg colors. I have 1 brown 4 tan 1 olive and 4 green egg colors currently (plus a spotted cream every once in a while that I think is a color fluke from on of the tans) and one of the greens isn't laying becuase she's brooding the chicks.

Then I have a lavender cockerel/pullet, a lavender chick which i think might be a cockerel and 6 sex link production red cross chicks

Ok, sorry, I thought you were expecting a brown egg from the lav orp.