Light brahma pullet or cockeral?

[feliciabrown]

I have 4 light brahma that are 9 weeks old and look pretty similar for the most part but am just curious because they have pretty red combs?

 

[feliciabrown]

Here are a few more pics!

 

[PDXJULES]

First 2 pics look like Pullets to me. Top view might interest someone who knows the breed better...and I'd watch length and shape of Saddle feathers. If no wattle and bright red comb development yet at that age, I'd declare them all Pullets! Many pullets get glorious pointy hackles - so that is not definitive unless really long...or if a difference in gender coloring for some breeds.

 

[Rhodebar Lover]

I think all pullets!

 

[feliciabrown]

First 2 pics look like Pullets to me. Top view might interest someone who knows the breed better...and I'd watch length and shape of Saddle feathers. If no wattle and bright red comb development yet at that age, I'd declare them all Pullets! Many pullets get glorious pointy hackles - so that is not definitive unless really long...or if a difference in gender coloring for some breeds.

Thank you! These ladies have had me wondering for a while!

 

[feliciabrown]

I think all pullets!

Thank you!

 

[U_Stormcrow]

I have Dark Brahma. Males tend to develop a particularly distinct "wing bar" (white in Dark Brahma, black in Light Brahma) for lack of better term and "sharper/pointier" shape and color in the saddle and hackles, together with some other indicators. Its less pronounced in Light Brahma, but to my (admittedly, NOT Expert nor very experienced) eye, those look like pullets to me.

(Pics "borrowed" from another site, edited by me for side by side focus)

Hope this helps

 

[feliciabrown]

I have Dark Brahma. Males tend to develop a particularly distinct "wing bar" (white in Dark Brahma, black in Light Brahma) for lack of better term and "sharper/pointier" shape and color in the saddle and hackles, together with some other indicators. Its less pronounced in Light Brahma, but to my (admittedly, NOT Expert nor very experienced) eye, those look like pullets to me.

(Pics "borrowed" from another site, edited by me for side by side focus)

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Hope this helps

Thank you for these pictures! I am thinking we do in fact have pullets!

 

[YogaMom]

You all may have seen me asking in other spots the insanity of those that tell me I have a roo and I have a hen. I can not have a rooster so hope it is a pullet. It came from a feed store with the "90% pullet" Mine will be 7 weeks on Saturday. The comb is a little orange but not red, but I do wonder about the tail . Is it possible its not full brahma and a mix or a slow developer or I am in total denial at 7 weeks

 

[Rhodebar Lover]

You all may have seen me asking in other spots the insanity of those that tell me I have a roo and I have a hen. I can not have a rooster so hope it is a pullet. It came from a feed store with the "90% pullet" Mine will be 7 weeks on Saturday. The comb is a little orange but not red, but I do wonder about the tail . Is it possible its not full brahma and a mix or a slow developer or I am in total denial at 7 weeks

Nothing is screaming cockerel yet Update in a week or two