Is this a hen or a rooster? It is about 5 weeks old.. Any ideas?

[petejd]

 

[sourland]

If it is only 5 weeks old, I would GUESS cockerel.

 

[Tricoglossus]

If it is only 5 weeks old, I would GUESS cockerel.

X2. There is a lot of red in that comb!

 

[DianaMallory]

My suggestion is wait until you either hear it crow or get an egg! I had so many tell me that a few of my golden comets were roos and they

were all hens. Thank god! They all have red combs. So unless you can pick it up and look at it's gent's then I would just wait to see if it crows!

 

[StarLover21]

My suggestion is wait until you either hear it crow or get an egg! I had so many tell me that a few of my golden comets were roos and they

were all hens. Thank god! They all have red combs. So unless you can pick it up and look at it's gent's then I would just wait to see if it crows!

There's acutally a lot of ways to tell a lot ealier

[and that can be flawed, I had a hen who crowed and layed eggs!]. Since there is so much red at that young age, I would say roo.

 

[Happy Chooks]

I also say cockerel.

 

[leadwolf1]

Looks like a cute little roo to me, too!

 

[hdowden]

My suggestion is wait until you either hear it crow or get an egg! I had so many tell me that a few of my golden comets were roos and they

were all hens. Thank god! They all have red combs. So unless you can pick it up and look at it's gent's then I would just wait to see if it crows!

those are a sex linked breed meaning they can be sexed at hatch, i'm guessing if that's the case then they aren't comets (red sex links) either that or the breed wasn't provided in your original post about them.

as for the op's bird that is a cochin and a cockerel. pullets of this breed don't get this red this early. if you look in my cochin album you will see a black mottled cockerel who is around 4-5 months in those pics and a partridge pullet of the same age