Mottled houdan, pullet or cockerel?

[Tookie]

I'm thinking cockerel.

 

[EllieandOlive]

Still hard to tell. The top pic with 2 in it, the one in the background looks rooish with the Doc Brown (Back to the Future) hair. The one you're asking about...wait for those pins on the back of the head to open

Yes the one in the back of the first picture is a polish cockerel

 

[BastyPutt]

Yes the one in the back of the first picture is a polish cockerel

I stared at mine for 15 minutes today, hoping it would just tell me what it is. I have never been so stumped by a breed in my life, but watching this thread closely. Here he is sandwiched between a Polish cockerel and hen - and his hat looks to have traits of both

 

[905silkies]

Houdans get the same sort of hairdo as Polish: Einstein vs Bouffant.

They also have a long, almost lanky frameView attachment 3508293My roos (idiot dingalings that they were) kept after her. Wyandotte and rock with her (crest trimmed around eyes so she can see and the others don't attack her for being "blind" and endangering the flock)

Here she's looking aroundView attachment 3508299


View attachment 3508300In need of a trim

Stunning bird!

 

[The Birb King]

I'm gonna say cockeral