About 2 weeks back we got 3 “pullets” they were all 2 1/2 months old at the time when we first got them I was not sure about one “she” looked pretty “roostery” we got two Lavender Opingtons and a Barred Rock. When I told the lady about him she’s insisted it was a pullet. He will probably be 3 months old now I will leave a picture down below if anyone can confirm he is not a pullet. The other one has no sign of a comb yet but she insists they are both pullets. (I will also mention I don’t think the lady spent too much time with her chickens because the “pullet” in suspect had zero feathers on his back and only 1 tail feather when we got him.
The main one I am not sure about is Amethyst the Barred. “She” seems very stand offish and is always chasing some of our bigger chickens around. She also is always fighting with the Lavender from above. She is always showing she’s is dominant. Idk if that is a sign because our Frizzle (we got was advertised as a pullet and we got her 2 months ago and she hasn’t started turning red or anything and she is 4 months) also chases Amethyst and both Lavenders. So I think that the chasing the Barred does might just be her being a chicken. Although idk if this is an actual thing but when I was looking at pictures of Barred roosters they all seemed to be white with black stripes while the females were black with white stripes, idk if there is actually an correlation between that and the gender but that is what I noticed. Amethyst seems to be more white with black stripes.
The main one I am not sure about is Amethyst the Barred. “She” seems very stand offish and is always chasing some of our bigger chickens around. She also is always fighting with the Lavender from above. She is always showing she’s is dominant. Idk if that is a sign because our Frizzle (we got was advertised as a pullet and we got her 2 months ago and she hasn’t started turning red or anything and she is 4 months) also chases Amethyst and both Lavenders. So I think that the chasing the Barred does might just be her being a chicken. Although idk if this is an actual thing but when I was looking at pictures of Barred roosters they all seemed to be white with black stripes while the females were black with white stripes, idk if there is actually an correlation between that and the gender but that is what I noticed. Amethyst seems to be more white with black stripes.
our main Rooster is a Bantam and by 12 weeks he was crowing and had splotches on the wings and hackle feathers! It was very obvious he was a roo, again thank you so much!
