I am starting to wonder if this Ameraucana (ee) chick is a rooster...

[stormylady]

looks exactly like my little girl Zelda do I hope she is a girl. Sandy

 

[lisahaschickens]

Gritsar -

Gotcha. And if there is a lack of feathering there, that means it's a roo? I have one of two like that in my group of six straight run Cuckoo Marans and I have been trying to figure them out. But, I posted pics of them all and the only one that people seemed sure was a boy is my most feathered chick - not a bare spot on him...

 

[gritsar]

I know of (and have read) of a tendency for the boys to feather out slower than the girls. It was true with my roos.
Not that the girls don't also go thru the ugly half-bald stage, just that the boys take longer to feather out.

ETA: Here's the criteria I used with my chicks with 100% accuracy. Granted it probably helped that I had all of one breed to compare:

According to UC Davis Veterinary Care Program.
2. Physical Characteristics (4-6 weeks of age)
a. Comb – The cockerels comb is medium size and pinkish, the pullets is small and yellowish.
b. Legs – The cockerel’s legs are sturdy and long, the pullets are finer and shorter.
c. Tail – The cockerel’s tail is stumpy and curved, the pullets is longer and straight.
d. Back – The cockerel has a thin line of stub feathers down the center of his back, the pullet has more advanced feathering along the center of her back.
e. Side of neck, flank and crop – The feathering in the cockerel in these areas is poorly advanced, the pullets feathering in these areas is well advanced.
f. Wing bows – In the cockerel the wing bows are bare, in pullets the wing bows are covered with small feathers.

 

[Delta2 23]

Woah, that thing is HUGE. It looks very rooster-ish but you never know. hope it's a girl! They're much better

 

[Chicken Fruit]

I actually am kinda hoping its a roo. Its got legs like pillars compared to the other EE's in the set. I was just noticing that today.

Who knows. I'll wait a week or two and know for certain.