Hoping for One Cockerel

[BigECart]

There are some tail feathers in the third photo - those are rounded. The more delicate feathers in front of the tail are pointed. So is he a feminine cockerel or is she a masculine hen?

 

[JacinLarkwell]

I would lean towards male, they're both as slim as mine were but they don't look super round eithet

 

[chrissynemetz]

Idk, it looks like a pullet to me

 

[The Happster]

Male, IMO.
Feathers aren't exactly manly, yet.
But it's looked like a cockerel all along.

 

[BigECart]

15 weeks. Looking more like Angel than Buffy today (more cockerel). He’s gotten really skittish lately - he’s calm when I hold him, but hard as hell to catch. I’m guessing he’s 10 of 12 in the pecking order, so he’s not in a hurry to crow. With all of that red, if she’s a pullet, she’ll probably be the first to lay.

 

[The Happster]

Looks like I was wrong.
It's a pullet.

 

[BigECart]

Enjoying some sunshine. Her tail feathers look a lot like the black minorca’s, but those neck feathers are pretty spiky. Should know either way in September.

 

[sourland]

Early pictures I was thinking cockerel for sure. I have switched my vote to pullet.

 

[BigECart]

Coming on to 16 weeks. Not much changed. Still the smallest of the 6 pullets. There was one day this week where she showed possible roo behavior. She spotted a rabbit near her flock and she chased it off. As for feathers - I wouldn’t call them sickle feathers but the feathers in front of the tail at long and slender.

black minorca, andalusian, and buff minorca for comb comparison

Chilling out of the rain

Tail in alert

and a close up of her tail from a couple of days ago

 

[BigECart]

17 weeks. Buffy/Angel has decided that humans are scary/evil monsters and has become ridiculously skittish. I considered leaving her loose last night and letting her become a feral chicken/raccoon snack. Hopefully she will settle down when she starts laying. One of my older hens (EE) is similar, and she’s been harder to get into the coop since we lost the matriarch, her BFF.