Gender of this Blue laced waydotte x Swedish Black mix 8 week old chick?

[Householder Homestead]

Can anyone tell what gender this chick, Speckles is? Father is a blue laced wayndotte and mother was a Swedish Black. We lost the mother to a damn hawk when this chick was a week out from hatching. I'm really hoping it's a pullet, but my gut says cockerel. I'm trying to decide if my flock is big enough to handle two roosters. I have 11 hens, 1 rooster and 9 unsexed 8 week old chicks whose Mama just moved them into the main coop after raising them in a playhouse turned brooder house for 8 weeks. Speckles doesn't seem to mind being held, just like its mother.

 

[LadiesAndJane]

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Can anyone tell what gender this chick, Speckles is? Father is a blue laced wayndotte and mother was a Swedish Black. We lost the mother to a damn hawk when this chick was a week out from hatching. I'm really hoping it's a pullet, but my gut says cockerel. I'm trying to decide if my flock is big enough to handle two roosters. I have 11 hens, 1 rooster and 9 unsexed 8 week old chicks whose Mama just moved them into the main coop after raising them in a playhouse turned brooder house for 8 weeks. Speckles doesn't seem to mind being held, just like its mother.

At 11 weeks this is definitely a boy. He is beautiful.

 

[TheOddOneOut]

Boy

 

[Sussex19]

He is a cockerel, and a very handsome one.

 

[Painted Calls]

Cockerel

 

[Backyardhomestead921]

He is a cockerel.

 

[Householder Homestead]

Dang… I was really hoping Speckles was a pullet to keep my beloved hen alive in her chicks. To my untrained eye it seems like I have a flock of 9 cockerels that hatched out the last week of July. It would seem that my rooster Sir Richard has some strong boy swimmers.

 

[Painted Calls]

With chickens it's the hens that decide gender. Seems like maybe Speckles wanted you to have sons.