@Overo Mare @MysteryChicken Photo of the bird in question is in the link below. Sound is above.
Oh boy. Well. Now I'm not toooo sure LOL I've had hens and pullets make crow(ish) sounds too.
As for looking at feathers and things like that - me - I'm not very good at all with spying cockerels unless they reaaallly look like one. That is not my talent!
https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/help.1553473/post-26294942
