Henrietta is making us wonder

[LinkinChicks]

Hi everyone,

Coming to you all again, this time with our white leghorn. The girls (and boy) are getting pretty big now and developing as such... But we are starting to wonder if our white leghorn Henrietta is actually a rooster. They're all almost 18 weeks old, but this one is seeming much more developed than the rest of the girls (mixed flock, but we do have one other white leghorn), and what concerns us is her big red comb which hasn't flopped.

Here are some pictures of her, along with one of her flock mate, Meringue, for comparison.

 

[NuggetTheChicken]

She is a pullet. By now she should have started crowing if she was a cockerel

 

[JadeFarms]

Pullet closer to POL

 

[21hens-incharge]

She is a pullet. By now she should have started crowing if she was a cockerel

^^this^^

 

[TheOddOneOut]

POL girl.

 

[LinkinChicks]

Thank you for confirming! We read that normally the pullets have their comb flop over in this breed. I didn't see anything other than that indicating that she was a cockeral, but I wasn't sure, especially since the one cockeral we do have (the big black Langshan in one of the pictures) has yet to crow and he's also almost 18 weeks, but the one we had to give away was crowing at 7 weeks... So I don't know what to think

 

[LinkinChicks]

POL girl.

Should I be looking for eggs then?

 

[TheOddOneOut]

Should I be looking for eggs then?

How old again? Probably soon. Look for squatting first.

 

[LinkinChicks]

How old again? Probably soon. Look for squatting first.

She's around 18 weeks, from the first week of May.