"Louisiana "La-yers" Peeps"

[Folly's place]

Hello from Michigan!
@Nichole504 , a new person from New Orleans, just posted about a sweet hen she's found that needs a home. It's her first chicken, and she needs some advice and help.
Mary

 

[aart]

Hello from Michigan!
@Nichole504 , a new person from New Orleans, just posted about a sweet hen she's found that needs a home. It's her first chicken, and she needs some advice and help.
Mary

https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/stray-chicken-and-no-coop.1340834/

 

[Boone Farm]

Anyone able to help me? I am not sure if I have a rooster or not. I got these two White Leghorns as day olds from Meyer. I only ordered 1 but they sent me an extra chick. Anyway, one has tail feathers that look very rooster to me and has a much larger comb than my other leghorn. I was ready to get rid of it (live in city cannot have rooster) but I showed a picture to a co-worker who said he thinks its a hen.

This is my first time with Leghorns so I'm unfamiliar with their development. I know they are known for large combs but my co-worked said they grow at different speeds and that didn't necessarily mean rooster. What do yall think?

Picture 1 has both (left is possible rooster).
Picture 2 has just possible roosters comb.
Picture 3 is my hen.

edit: They are just over 2 months old.

 

[Folly's place]

I think it's likely a cockerel, but repost pictures in a couple more weeks to be sure.
Mary

 

[sealer39]

How old are they now? White Leghorns develop pretty fast so you will find out for sure soon.

 

[JLfarm]

I’m gonna go with a cockerel. I think I can see a spur nub on its leg.

 

[JLfarm]

I’m gonna go with a cockerel. I think I can see a spur nub on its leg.

Or is it possible that the chicken in question is the leghorn pullet that you ordered and the hen that you think is a leghorn pullet is actually a white rock pullet ?

 

[Boone Farm]

Interesting... looking at pics the hen does look pretty rock like. I don’t see a whole lot of pictures of leghorns without the raised tail feathers.

 

[JLfarm]

Interesting... looking at pics the hen does look pretty rock like. I don’t see a whole lot of pictures of leghorns without the raised tail feathers.

That’s exactly what I noticed off the bat too she has the body more like the rocks I’ve raised in the past and the tail isn’t very leghorn-ish.

 

[alexisrambles]

To me she looks more like a Rock too. Also, I wouldn't use spur-nubs to tell! Some of my girls popped out spur nubs before my boys!