Mystery chicken: is it a pullet or cockerel?

[Nat_R]

Tsc was selling chicks labeled Sapphire Gem Pullets but I think this one looks more like a Barred Rock and now I'm not sure it's not a cockerel. First pic is at five weeks

 

[GravityWaves]

It's definitely a cockerel and it could be a Sapphire Gem. Males of that breed will be barred.

 

[Ilovemychicks08]

It's definitely a cockerel and it could be a Sapphire Gem. Males of that breed will be barred.

Cockeral

 

[NatJ]

Tsc was selling chicks labeled Sapphire Gem Pullets but I think this one looks more like a Barred Rock and now I'm not sure it's not a cockerel. First pic is at five weeks

Yes, there is definitely something wrong with that label for that chick.

Sapphire Gem cockerels have white barring.
Sapphire Gem pullets do not.

I agree the chick looks male.

If it has blue feathers with white barring, it is probably a Sapphire Gem male. If it has black feathers with white barring, it is probably either a Barred Rock or a Black Sexlink male. (I cannot tell in the photo whether it has blue or black.) A Black Sexlink male will grow up to show some red as well, but a Barred Rock male will only have black and white at all ages.

 

[Rhodebar Lover]

Black Sexlinks and Sapphire Gem cockerels only have one copy of the barring gene while Barred Rocks have two. He looks to be a Barred Rock cockerel by the lightness of his barring.