Help! is this a cockerel or pullet?

[donrae]

A roo won't be that color. It's a girl, green eggs incoming!

 

[TayFray!]

Wow my black australorp standard/ buff rock bantam (for sure that breed, because those were the only chickens I had at the time) looks just like that!

 

[technodoll]

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absolutely - only girls get that coloring

 

[gryeyes]

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absolutely - only girls get that coloring

X 2.

 

[chickenzoo]

Looks girly to me, I think she has some Game chicken in her. A lot of game hens have pointier feathers than domestic hens, but not long like the roosters.

 

[MobyQuail]

pullet-ski

 

[UrbanFarmerGirl]

I also say girl- but I am curious about the color related comments. I have some EE chicks- is it just this color that you can assume to be a girl? What about it specifically? What about the speckled tan, brown, and red shades?

 

[gryeyes]

Male EEs are almost always white bodied, with red shoulders, and other colors, not the "partridge" look of those particularly colored females.

Carl, my dominant rooster when he was a baby chicken and I thought he was a pullet.

Carl as a tween-ager.

My Carl all grown up.

 

[jenesis536]

Without a doubt a girl. Mine looks the same... she even got some feathers on her tail that made me wonder, but that's a girl for sure. Could be a twin for mine. She's a sweetie, too.

 

[UrbanFarmerGirl]

Thanks for the color explanation! I have 3 EE chicks, almost three weeks old- two chicks with the partridge color coming in, and one that is a soft gray color. I find this color prediction very reassuring!