Is my Light Brahma a rooster too?

[mrbstephens]

Trixie is almost 8 weeks old and is starting to look rooish to me. PLEASE tell me I'm wrong! I have 7 chicks and now 2 of them are looking like a rooster. I can't have a rooster so if anyone living on long island would like to trade that would be great! See pics of Trixie below to give me your opinions. Thanks so much. I love this forum!

 

[Year of the Rooster]

Looks like a pullet to me. She looks very beautiful too!

 

[mrbstephens]

I hope you're not saying that just to make me happy.

This doesn't look like a lot of red in the face and waddles to you?

 

[CallyB57]

I have 3 light brahmas - only one of them developed the comb and wattles early on - he also 'pinked up' before the other two. I was right in my guess that he was a cockerel and the other two pullets. Just looking at them, the ones with the reddish developing combs (at that age) tells me they are most likely cockerels. Another way the cockerel was different (in my 3) was that the cockerel's hackles developed into a 'V' shape and travelled down his back, and the pullets still have a rounded shape to the ring of black feathers surrounding their necks. The wattles on the cockerel also turned redder and developed much faster than on the pullets. I now have 1 brahma rooster and 1 EE rooster, and they don't fight, except for an occasional jab or grab.

 

[Becky_H]

She looks pretty well like my light brahma, that people decided was a rooster. S/he's 7 weeks old now and looks like this:

I just don't know.

 

[mrbstephens]

AAACK! Now I'm bummed out again! Does anyone ever see their 7-8 weel hens do this thing where they perch, stretch out their necks and open their beaks wide, but no sound? Looks like a rooster crowing, but like I said no sound. I see Trixie do this and my other chick who I think may be a rooster(a 7 week old Partridge rock). Is this an indication that they are a rooster? Or maybe they are just yawning?

 

[Year of the Rooster]

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That's not a sign of a rooster. All chicks/chickens will do that. The reason I say pullet is because I don't see any pointy hackle or saddle feathers.

 

[fshinggrl]

Whatever it is, s/he is gorgeous!!!! Good luck.

 

[mrbstephens]

I hear those words often...hackle and saddle feathers. Could you please explain to me where these are? Obviously I'm new to this.

 

[LuLuBelle]

Has it started to do a cockledoodledo... We have two roosters, one is about 11 weeks old, and it just started doing that.