I fell in love, please don't tell me this GL wyandott is a roo

[Chickensaur]

:/
It doesn't have any saddle feathers at all though, it's too young.
My 8 week old chicks that are roosters are just now growing in those plastic-like feather sheaths for their saddle feathers and you can't see them at all unless you lift up their back feathers to check underneath them.

 

[cafarmgirl]

I really wanted a house-chicken that I was going to litter train and everything, so I got a pair of day-old EE pullets in the hope that one would be pet material(1 of them might be).
In the meanwhile though, one of the 4-week-old straight run gold-laced wyandotts I got for craft feathers/meat has wormed its way into my heart. It's such a sweetie, always first to come up to me for treats and scratches, sits on my lap and watches TV with me, climbs up on my shoulder and makes adorable chuckling noises...
I named it Rue, since I have a feeling that's what this is all going to end in.
We aren't supposed to have chickens at all, there's no way I can keep a rooster in the suburbs secret.

Is 4 weeks too young to tell?

With that much comb/wattles and that much red at this age...that is a rooster.

You mentioned litter training a house chicken.... you know chickens don't litter train right? Some people put chicken diapers on them and let them run around the house that way. But make sure you get them outside on a regular basis, birds require sunlight to process vitamin D.

 

[ChickenChatten]

I agree, rooster.

 

[dezziy]

what is the hat test?

 

[Toshi]

what is the hat test?

Thats what i was thinking. lol But looks like a boy to me sorry! I know it sucks i had 1 GLW he turned out to be a roo, i was so mad! I loved his feathers, but i already had a roo. I now have another one...I am on the fence about her, she better be a girl.