My chicken is 6 months old and I don’t know whether it’s a hen or rooster?

[Tatootles]

So I have this chicken and I can’t tell if it’s a boy or girl? He/she has 4 other siblings 2 boys and 2 girls. The 2 boys started crowing by 4-6 months and the girls just started laying eggs by the end of this month. But this one is a mystery to me! He/she hasn’t crowed yet, but he/she hasn’t laid eggs yet either. Sometimes it acts like a girl and other times it acts like a boy. I have noticed he/she will chase the other hens around in the yard, and sometimes will try to mount them but not her own siblings (the girls), so that makes me think he’s a rooster… but yet he/she hasn’t fought with any other roosters either like his/her two older brothers that are constantly at each other‘s throat fighting and hasn’t tried to fight with any other roosters in the yard, so that makes me think she’s a girl if anybody can help me out, it would be greatly appreciated! I’ll link a picture of him/her down below. He/she has plumage like a girl, but looks like some spurs might be coming through too?

 

[Tatootles]

So I have this chicken and I can’t tell if it’s a boy or girl? He/she has 4 other siblings 2 boys and 2 girls. The 2 boys started crowing by 4-6 months and the girls just started laying eggs by the end of this month. But this one is a mystery to me! He/she hasn’t crowed yet, but he/she hasn’t laid eggs yet either. Sometimes it acts like a girl and other times it acts like a boy. I have noticed he/she will chase the other hens around in the yard, and sometimes will try to mount them but not her own siblings (the girls), so that makes me think he’s a rooster… but yet he/she hasn’t fought with any other roosters either like his/her two older brothers that are constantly at each other‘s throat fighting and hasn’t tried to fight with any other roosters in the yard, so that makes me think she’s a girl if anybody can help me out, it would be greatly appreciated! I’ll link a picture of him/her down below. He/she has plumage like a girl, but looks like some spurs might be coming through too?

 

[Tatootles]

If y’all would like me to attach photos of his/her brothers and sisters lmk

 

[WaterfowlsPoultry]

I would think rooster probably, If they are just chasing hens then that would mean they are a hen, but if they are MOUNTING the hens, then yes, It is a rooster.

 

[The Moonshiner]

Definitely a cockerel

 

[Ridgerunner]

With those saddle and hackle feathers and the curved tail feathers you have a boy.

The spur nubs don't mean anything. All chickens, male or female, have spur nubs. It is kind of rare but some hens have spurs that can rival a rooster.

 

[The Moonshiner]

He also has a male specific pattern.

 

[WingItRanch]

Definitely a cockerel. All the male-specific feathing. Beautiful!

Maybe he's just more submissive than the other cockerels.

 

[Chicken_tiger_catt]

Boy.

 

[Tatootles]

I would think rooster probably, If they are just chasing hens then that would mean they are a hen, but if they are MOUNTING the hens, then yes, It is a roosterI have some hens that end up mounting roosters, and other hands

I would think rooster probably, If they are just chasing hens then that would mean they are a hen, but if they are MOUNTING the hens, then yes, It is a rooster.

Thank you, I have some hens that try and mount other hens/roosters but this one has been a mystery. I just caught him/her fighting with one of my hens like a rooster today. My poor girl Zora has her face all torn up and bloody. I found her squatting in the tall grass with him/her beside her picking on her