Is 14 week old Partridge Wyandotte Betty actually a Bert?

[NdGoGirl]

Hi All:

I got Betty at 10 weeks old and now she is 14 weeks old. Posted her photo on FaceBook and someone said she looked like a rooster, not a hen. Could that explain why she is thinner than the other birds and why her tail feathers are getting long and curling?

Sexing experts, what do you think this bird is? Links below go to their photos.

Thanks in advance!

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1jD2lPGHLAWzYx1SbMHcjK5jGrfLXEKjr/view?usp=sharing

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1J4A-hlHz6DSEbXKsI7yZHP_kT9BFZK-K/view?usp=sharing

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1PI-QtiX7HW1dVofckW-4DsSweB28lzbf/view?usp=sharing

 

[HuffleClaw]

She’s a pullet.

 

[NdGoGirl]

Thank you! Any idea why people saw roosters?

They got me all stressed out for no reason!

 

[chrissynemetz]

100% pullet.
I'm not sure why anyone would think she's a rooster

 

[NdGoGirl]

100% pullet.
I'm not sure why anyone would think she's a rooster

Thank you! I really appreciate your expertise.

The annoying thing about all of this is that unlike this thread where I am asking for my birds to be sexed, on the FB thread where they told me that at least two of my birds were roos, I was asking about if birds that ate fermented feed drank less water.

Why? Why feel the need to comment on the sex of my birds and do it incorrectly. Caused me and my boyfriend that has equally grown attached to our girls undue stress. And this is the man that fought me getting them in the first place

 

[Willowspirit]

Some people like to make guesses about such things without saying they’re guessing and without considering the consequences of their actions.

 

[Ol Grey Mare]

Partridge is a variety with gender differentiated plumage pattern, the people ssserting this bird is male are clearly ignorant of that fact

 

[Celticdragonfly]

I'm still learning at this - part of why I read this section of the forum is to keep looking at different birds and learn, and I've also been watching a lot of videos on it. That certainly looks like a pullet to me.

If you have someone doing something like that again, take a deep breath and remember the quote "you won't know for sure until they crow or lay an egg".

 

[cstephens1987]

Pullet

 

[Ol Grey Mare]

If you have someone doing something like that again, take a deep breath and remember the quote "you won't know for sure until they crow or lay an egg".

Except you do know, for sure, well before that. With the bird in question, fir example, it was definitive at about 4 weeks when the plumage pattern was at the point that m/f was shown. Still others can be known, for sure, at hatch. Very few breeds are myreries beyond about 6-8 weeks.
Stick around and you'll soon be sexing with the best without relying on the saying.