Golden laced Wyandotte

[Thechickenchick2]

this is one of my 3 week old golden laced Wyandotte. cockerel or pullet?

 

[Jetblack2004]

I'd say cockerel. It's got a pretty red comb to be a pullet at 3 weeks.

 

[Thechickenchick2]

I was thinking so.. this is the reddest and widest comb I have out of the 5 I have.. there are redder waddles as well and the others are still yellow

 

[techbsmith]

I've got 5 glw pullets and 4 glw cockerels .. did you notice at hatch-3rd week the ones that were slower to feather in, and tend to have light/yellowish coloration on the wing area - those are the cockerels. At hatch, the pullets have a variable length feathering pattern on the wings - short, long, short, long, etc. The pullets have practically even feather patterns on the wing. short, short, short, etc.

From what I see of the pic, I'd agree with others, it's a cockerel

 

[Thechickenchick2]

Thank you so much!

 

[Crazy for Chickens!]

Cockerel

 

[Thechickenchick2]

If this chick was 4 weeks old vs 3 would you still think cockerel? I ask because when I got them I believed them to be just a few days old but in the event they were a week old (feathering has matched them being around 3-3.5 weeks old) I’m curious what you’d think at 4 weeks of age

 

[Gray Farms]

Likely a cockerel. To young to say for sure though. Post pictures at 6-8 weeks of age.

 

[gladahmae]

One of my SLWs pinked up early but it hasn’t really changed for 3 weeks now so I would wait and see on the Wyandotte.

 

[drumstick diva]

leaning towards cockerel