( Meyer Hatchery ) 16 Week Old Cockerel - What Breed?

[HiEverybirdy]

If this is a boy, I vote Olive Egger. Meyer's website is a little whackadoodle, and they have some inconsistencies in their "More Details" sections, but they do show an image of a blue OE pullet with slate legs and another image of an OE hen with a single comb, so those genes are in their OEs.
https://www.meyerhatchery.com/Olive-Egger-Day-Old-Chicks-p213429916

I don't see the pointy feathers, though, and those comb/wattles aren't really that big for 15 or 16 weeks, imho but I've not reviewed your other thread.

Anywho, my runner-up vote is Blue Copper Marans, even if it seems very odd that a male wouldn't show the copper. Not that I'm an expert. Just weighing in because we're raising one right now. His copper began to appear at 5 weeks. Here he is at 12.5. Copper-riffic!

 

[sybonbon]

If this is a boy, I vote Olive Egger. Meyer's website is a little whackadoodle, and they have some inconsistencies in their "More Details" sections, but they do show an image of a blue OE pullet with slate legs and another image of an OE hen with a single comb, so those genes are in their OEs.
https://www.meyerhatchery.com/Olive-Egger-Day-Old-Chicks-p213429916

I don't see the pointy feathers, though, and those comb/wattles aren't really that big for 15 or 16 weeks, imho but I've not reviewed your other thread.

Anywho, my runner-up vote is Blue Copper Marans, even if it seems very odd that a male wouldn't show the copper. Not that I'm an expert. Just weighing in because we're raising one right now. His copper began to appear at 5 weeks. Here he is at 12.5. Copper-riffic!

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Yours is definitely a male. I'm thinking female for hers. Looks just like my Blue Marans pullets.

 

[cluckingheck]

He’s 16 weeks old now and this doesn’t help much, but I took pictures of what I think are the start of his saddle feathers. Also his hackles because they have a sheen to them.

 

[sybonbon]

Are you hoping for a cockerel?

 

[cluckingheck]

Are you hoping for a cockerel?

It doesn’t really matter either way, though I was hoping for a cochin to go with my blue cochin pullet.

 

[HiEverybirdy]

He’s 16 weeks old now and this doesn’t help much, but I took pictures of what I think are the start of his saddle feathers. Also his hackles because they have a sheen to them.

Maybe! We've always seen our boys' saddles start by 8-12 weeks, and they're super pointy, but chicken growth rates are variable and solid colors are tough. And girls get sheen, too. Cute bird either way. Keep us posted.

 

[sybonbon]

It doesn’t really matter either way, though I was hoping for a cochin to go with my blue cochin pullet.

Any updates?

 

[cluckingheck]

Any updates?

Nothing really, he seems to be slow growing. Though, he has gotten into a semi-serious fight with my OEGB who’s a few weeks older than him and just started to do a halfa**ed rooster shuffle around some of the pullets, lol.

 

[cluckingheck]

Blueberry is 19 weeks old now, I think? It’s hard to keep track of hatch dates sometimes when you have different age groups.

 

[cluckingheck]

20 weeks old! I guess he’s a blue copper maran

( yeah, that’s someone else’s feather on his back; probably from my jubilee orpington. i thought he was getting copper in at first until I brushed it off, lol )