How reliable a gender indicator is redness of peacomb in Easter Eggers?

[bayareapilot]

show pictures! I'm good at this!

Here it goes... just took these pics... hoping for the best

 

[featherhead007]

Here it goes... just took these pics... hoping for the best

I'm saying rooster, but he/she is a magnificent looking animal.. regardless, keep that one!

 

[featherhead007]

Sometimes i'm wrong. hows the birds temperment?

 

[Table4Six]

I'm saying rooster, but he/she is a magnificent looking animal.. regardless, keep that one!

I agree, I think you have a very handsome cockerel.

 

[bayareapilot]

I'm saying rooster, but he/she is a magnificent looking animal.. regardless, keep that one!

Thanks for your info - is the reason that you said 'he/she' is that it still could go either way? If so, at what age would it be obvious? I assume when it crows?

Thinking ahead if it turns out you are correct - I've never had anything but hens and was wondering how vocal a rooster would be? I live in an urban environment and would like to disturb my neighbors the least possible. Just wondering..... We had a neighbor somewhere in the neighborhood and it cockadoodle dooed most of the day.

Part of me would like a rooster to watch over the pullets (which hopefully the others are), but at the same time I don't want to be a pain in the 'ears' for the neighborhood.

 

[bayareapilot]

Sometimes i'm wrong. hows the birds temperment?

At nearly eight weeks old, definitely assertive.

 

[featherhead007]

At nearly eight weeks old, definitely assertive.

Nothing wrong with roosters, if you are lucky!

 

[Mixed flock enthusiast]

here he is full grown!View attachment 1992271

Wow! Such a striking beauty!!!

 

[featherhead007]

Wow! Such a striking beauty!!!

Don't tell him that! he already has a napolean complex!

 

[BantyChooks]

Here it goes... just took these pics... hoping for the best

Hard to tell, but I'm thinking male.