Female Rooster?

[Expat_in_Ecuador]

Something is wrong with my Chicken. A week ago I had an almost 6-month-old hen. Since then, her comb and waddle have gotten red-er. Greenish black feathers have popped up. and most of all she started crowing and attaching a toy with her hackle feathers raised. I have done some googling and it is gender change is something that can happen, but mostly through diseases. I know it's not normal and I don't know what to do for her/him/them. She has also had problems in the past with tendon damage on her right foot if that affects anything. I only have one Chicken, and I know I should have at least two but I tried raising chickens before and I failed traumatically before they were even a month old, so I had no intention of getting another chicken. But then there was a little chick 1-3 days old being kicked out of her flock by her mother and the next thing I know I have a new pet, and I'm surprised she is still alive.

Does anyone have any suggestions on what to do?

 

[tlcmurphy]

Has she ever laid an egg?

 

[nuthatched]

He never was a female, just a late blooming cockerel.

 

[Expat_in_Ecuador]

Has she ever laid an egg?

no, she hasn't but I was told she wasn't old enough yet, and that she should some time this month

 

[nuthatched]

no, she hasn't but I was told she wasn't old enough yet, and that she should some time this month

That's not going to happen, I think whoever gave you him was just unloading an unwanted cockerel.

 

[tlcmurphy]

I also believe this is a cockerel not a pullet

 

[ShrekDawg]

That bird was never female. Sorry.

 

[Goldenwahintofboss]

Seems like all awkward teens he is just getting his first Stache lol. Those tail feathers plus crowing is a dead give away. Lil man dude roo there. Does he dance and stomp yet?

 

[Wyorp Rock]

He never was a female, just a late blooming cockerel.

Agreed.

 

[Expat_in_Ecuador]

I know that it seems as though I'm looking at an almost fully grown Rooster and saying that it's a girl, but she didn't look like this at all a couple of weeks ago. She hadn't laid an egg but she was making nests around the yard and refusing to leave her spots for hours. A week ago though her comb got bigger, her feathers darker and pintyer and she stopped sitting in her spots as much. These two pictures are the same bird taken two weeks apart. Is this how roosters develop? I have never kept chickens before.