Convince my family this is a cockerel!

[NatJ]

Do you guys think it is worth the risk to wait a few weeks and have 2 cockerels and a pullet possibly until next spring?

Is there a time limit on getting rid of cockerels?

I do think that two cockerels with the blind pullet until spring could be quite hard on her, as they will be grown up enough to want to mate well before springtime.

 

[Chickenhappy8708]

Silver lacing on the wings, plus another thread said Wyandotte, single is a genetic mutation now in Wyandottes, happens at the hatchery I guess.

 

[Chickenhappy8708]

Is there a time limit on getting rid of cockerels?

I do think that two cockerels with the blind pullet until spring could be quite hard on her, as they will be grown up enough to want to mate well before springtime.

Would you agree it is better to be safe than sorry then, to get a few pullets for her friends?

 

[Rhodebar Lover]

I'm not seeing anything cockerel-like yet! Even the thick legs can occur in pullets. Here's my Partridge Orp pullet at various ages who had some of the thickest legs I've seen in a chick! Eventually she grew into those tree trunks. She made her gender known by her feathering, but it just shows that sometimes the secondary sex characteristics aren't accurate. Comb and feather shape, patchiness, and color are my go-tos! Sometimes when they're too young for these, you just know however! Obviously not always, but if your gut goes that way, you can never have too many chickens

 

[Chickenhappy8708]

Holy legs! She is very pretty.

 

[Rhodebar Lover]

Holy legs! She is very pretty.

Thank you! Her coloring is not proper in the slightest, but it makes her unique. So are yours!

 

[NatJ]

Would you agree it is better to be safe than sorry then, to get a few pullets for her friends?

The current ones are young enough that I can't tell their gender at all yet.
Whether it's better to be "safe" by getting more chicks--I really don't know. Sorry.

 

[Chickenhappy8708]

I can post more pics later today of the tail, and continue posting in a week or two.

 

[Chickenhappy8708]

In my Leghorns, the cockerel had really thick legs, was really slow to feather, had the stubbiest tail ever, he also he was larger and taller, I wish I had another Wyandotte to compare to, but I don't actually another Wyandotte to compare to would solve all my problems lol.

 

[HENS-and-MARES]

People on my other thread have all said cockerel, his legs ate thick, his tail is short, he is feathering slow, and his comb and wattles are Orange, I can get better pics tommarow.

My Olive Egger cockerel had, and still has thin legs, he just started crowing this morning!