Mystified!!

[Rlmp817]

This one keeps everyone guessing! This is my first batch of chickens, but my friend who has had them for 20+ years is mystified too.

So this is 16wk mixed breed (salmon favorelle & something)
No crowing yet, closer in size to my know pullets than the known cockerel. I can’t tell hackle/saddle feathers (I keep looking, but they don’t look super pointy compared to the pullets.)
But that wide comb!

Thoughts?

 

[ChickNanny13]

Don't know the breed (Salmon Favorelle) but guessing Cockerel Looks like hackle feathering starting, maybe saddle starting too. PLEASE let us know if the crow or eggs shows up Pretty bird

@Brahma Chicken5000 @JedJackson
Thank you in advance for your expertise

 

[ButtonquailGirl14]

I am confused too!

 

[HuskerHens18]

Cockerel. Those feathers coming off his neck are too long and pointy to be a hen. I have a mix breed very similar, and those long pointy neck feathers grew in first. But hey, I'd love to be surprised and it turn out to lay an egg!

 

[Chelsa'sChicks]

Easter Egger rooster. I have quite a few EEs and they are beautiful and meek. Look at the puffy cheeks and tilted tail.. those are exactly what my EEs have also. He is beautiful!!

 

[ButteCA]

Looks like a rooster tail.

 

[JedJackson]

Tough call but I think it's a cockerel, too. It has quite thick legs and it looks like it is getting pointed sex feathers in the hackle and saddle.

 

[aglandaetap]

Cockerel

 

[Rlmp817]

Tough call but I think it's a cockerel, too. It has quite thick legs and it looks like it is getting pointed sex feathers in the hackle and saddle.

The legs really aren’t any thicker than my pullets, I have been comparing every feature
And the hackle feather look pointy from further away, but when I look at them closely, they are more blunted.