Light Brahmas 8 weeks

[Donette]

Still wondering about this one, although it’s comb is no longer significantly pinker than the others. Pullet or cockerel?

 

[sourland]

Looks like a pullet to me.

 

[Egg Snatcher]

Pullet

 

[HorseGirlAbby]

I say cockerel. It’s got big feet, and that comb is still larger than most pullet combs would be.

 

[Egg Snatcher]

I say cockerel. It’s got big feet, and that comb is still larger than most pullet combs would be.

If it were a cockerel you would already see pointed hackle and saddle feathers. Brahmas mature fast in my experience with them breeding and raising them.

 

[Donette]

If it were a cockerel you would already see pointed hackle and saddle feathers. Brahmas mature fast in my experience with them breeding and raising them.

Every source has said that Brahmas mature slow but this is my first year so I really don’t have any expertise. I just know this chicken is different from my other 5

 

[Donette]

If it were a cockerel you would already see pointed hackle and saddle feathers. Brahmas mature fast in my experience with them breeding and raising them.

Hoping you are right!

 

[ssferret]

I believe it's a pullet. I have Light Brahmas and hatch several per year but I have had a couple where I would keep going back and forth on sex. Luckily both times they came to be pullets.

Anyway, here are some of mine at 8 weeks. My cockerels will start growing their wattles much earlier than the pullets. It's around the same time you start noticing their combs.