Lav Ameraucana help sexing

[JenEgrrrL]

Hi All! I’ve learned so much about sexing tricks from y’all, but this one is still stumping me in my longed experience! Flat single row comb but it’s red, no spurs, hackle feathers look pointy but I dunno!? I keep inking it’s more hen like, but it sure looks roostery when it raises those neck feathers at the other chooks. Any help super appreciated!

 

[Leahs Coop]

How old? Do you have a full body picture?

 

[sourland]

I'm guessing pullet with no great certainty.

 

[chrissynemetz]

I honestly can't say without knowing the age, and maybe a full body picture. It's absolutely beautiful!!

 

[PoultryQueen29]

I'd need to know the age to be confident and a full body pic would be helpful, but I'm guessing cockerel. A pullet's comb would only be that large and red right before laying for the first time, and even then that seems like a big comb for a pullet. The tail feathers also look roo-ish: long, curved, and pointy. It can take several months for spurs to develop but you can check the spur bumps on this one and compare their size to a known pullet or hen; they might be noticeably bigger by now if you have a boy. Either way, he/she is gorgeous!

 

[Frazzemrat1]

Age is the biggest question that needs to be answered. Either that's a pullet who's around 20 weeks and getting close to lay, or that's a cockerel around 9 weeks.

Also, he wouldn't have spurs this young, and spurs aren't a very good indicator of gender anyway. I have a 2+ yr old hamburg hen with a spur.

 

[Brahma Chicken5000]

Shots of the bird standing in natural light and the age of the bird are needed to identify gender.

 

[HuffleClaw]

Cockerel

 

[cstephens1987]

1. Need age as that's a huge factor that has to be weighed against almost all other signs of sex

2. Lavenders often look kind of disheveled and frazzly and they're self colored so between the two they're going to be a bit harder to see sex specific feathering on

3. Spurs are possible on both sexes, and don't usually come in until quite a bit after all the other signs. If you're going by Spurs to sex you're missing a lot of clear other signs or you've got one odd bird

4. Based on what I'm seeing and what your showing I'm guessing the bird is on the older side and a POL Pullet but hard to say for sure. Clear full body shots while standing and age of bird would be very helpful

 

[MysteryChicken]

Cockerel

I agree.