Could this be a rooster just started crowing or do hens crow sometimes?

[Basskids08]

Better side pictures would help but that sure looks like male feathering/ color coming in, orps are often slow maturing, would vote cockerel right now.

x 2 - would be very interested in a nice side shot showing the whole bird (specifically the whole tail) and also a close up shot of the saddle and hackle areas

I would say she is definitely a he.

X 4

 

[MySweetChickens]

it is not uncommon for hens to crow here is some info


What is true is that, if your hen has had some damage to her reproductive system (such as an infection in her ovaries), she might begin to look like a rooster on the outside--and act like one--due to a hormone imbalance! Such a hen wouldn't lay eggs, and may even begin to crow. At her molt, she may grow in the same plumage roosters have in her breed. If her infection or condition then cleared up, she might begin laying anew, stop crowing... and at her next molt she would grow in henny feathers again.
She would still be a female chicken the whole time, just like human women are still females even if they have hormone imbalances or are infertile for various reasons.
http://www.mypetchicken.com/backyar...at-a-hen-can-turn-into-a-rooster-Is-H234.aspx.

 

[BantamLover21]

Rooster for sure.

 

[jaybuckalew]

 

[donrae]

Sorry, but crowing hens are not near as common as folks want to believe. Especially in a young bird, crowing is male.

Jubilee Oprs are a less mass produced variety, thus they still retain the slower maturing characteristics of the breed. He's all boy, for sure.

 

[Ol Grey Mare]

it is not uncommon for hens to crow here is some info
What is true is that, if your hen has had some damage to her reproductive system (such as an infection in her ovaries), she might begin to look like a rooster on the outside--and act like one--due to a hormone imbalance! Such a hen wouldn't lay eggs, and may even begin to crow. At her molt, she may grow in the same plumage roosters have in her breed. If her infection or condition then cleared up, she might begin laying anew, stop crowing... and at her next molt she would grow in henny feathers again.
She would still be a female chicken the whole time, just like human women are still females even if they have hormone imbalances or are infertile for various reasons.
http://www.mypetchicken.com/backyar...at-a-hen-can-turn-into-a-rooster-Is-H234.aspx.

While it does happen, it actually *is* uncommon - and does not apply to the bird in question in this thread, who is a roo.