Confession: I just realized a 3yo hen is actually not a hen

[Battlepants]

Has there been eggs in the past from this one? I know that roo behavior can develop in some hens over time for various reasons, but they still genetically are hens.

 

[HappyClucker7]

That's a hen. Females will sometimes mount each other as a show of dominance.

 

[Painted Calls]

Female.

 

[hevansdvm]

I agree female. My EE roo has a much bigger redder comb than that and huge spurs and big droopy tail feathers and he’s only just over a year old.

 

[SpicyDisaster]

Yep, that's a dude, male feathers and everything.

No male feathering on this one, they are very noticeable even when only three months old.

We have a female who mounts one other female. Only the lowest of the flock.

 

[nuthatched]

No male feathering on this one, they are very noticeable even when only three months old.

We have a female who mounts one other female. Only the lowest of the flock.

I see pointy, shaggy hackles but white on white birds always prove difficult for me to see.

 

[Percheron chick]

Team hen all the way. Dominant hens often mount young or submissive hens.

 

[SpicyDisaster]

Not the best example, but here's our EE cockerel at 12 weeks. The tail feathers are visibly different, pointier and sloped. The Wyandotte pullet on the right has rounded tail feathers like I'm seeing on this presumed girl.


Here's a closer pic of saddle feathers on a 11 week old Ameraucana cockerel. Much pointier and noticeable.

 

[SpicyDisaster]

I have a white and tan small hen named Gladys who, for the last 3 years, has frequently squabbled with the others in my flock. She's skittish and ornery. Tiny comb, small feet, no spurs, no crowing. And yet, today, I saw "her" on a female and finally understood. How did I miss this?

Any chance you can get side photos of her? From that angle she looks female though perhaps a closer side angle might be different for the white feathers.

 

[aart]

I see pointy, shaggy hackles but white on white birds always prove difficult for me to see.

I see some pointy hackle feathers and a few pointy saddle feathers.
Hormonal mixup.