She is defininetly head hen if she is not a cockrel. She leads the others in everything they do and it is so funny to watch her herd them into the coop at night. Our White Rock hen is also bossy to the others and used to chest bump the others but she does not challenge the SLW.
Yes, after reading up on Wyandottes I saw that she should have a rose comb and not the single comb, but was told by another poster that some hatcheries do produce single combs because of the increased fertility with the single comb gene. I did not think to ask if it would indicate that it was one sex or the other or if both sexes could have a single comb.
The comb type won't indicate gender, didn't mean to imply that. Just that we're used to seeing rose combs on wyandottes, when they have a single comb I'm really not sure how big it gets. Is it smaller than breeds that are bred with a straight comb? Thus would a young roo have a smaller comb than say a rock counterpart of the same age? That was where my train of thought was going.
that is correct that some hatchery birds do have the wrong combs, ear color, leg color, ect from being breed for eggs and not to standard. as for the comb being able to tell the gender that is a no it is not an idacator of gender for both males and females can pop up with these faults. i am going by the redness of the comb and the solid white wing colors (again i have been wrong based on this by such young birds). by 16 weeks you should be able to tell what gender this chicken is, by coloring and by feather development.
