Need help identifying this breed

[Poultry mum]

Roosters, especially young cockerels, will occasionally mount other roosters.

Slate legs is the wrong color for a wyandotte. Do you have a picture of your SLW?

Give me a min I’ll go get a photo

 

[TheAlrightyGina]

Give me a min I’ll go get a photo

I'm ashamed that my first thought when I read this was "but it's dark out...?"

 

[Poultry mum]

Mavis: her legs are no where near as yellow as Audreys

I'm ashamed that my first thought when I read this was "but it's dark out...?"

time zone difference lol...

 

[EmmaRainboe]

Mavis: her legs are no where near as yellow as Audreys

time zone difference lol...

Is she currently laying? Leg color can become washed out over time.

 

[Poultry mum]

Is she currently laying? Leg color can become washed out over time.

She was until moult set in... now there’s feathers all over my yard... some days I go out and have to count everyone just to make sure no one has been taken there’s so many feathers everywhere lol gotta love autumn (fall) it’s not just the leaves that fall from the trees.. lol

 

[RoostersAreAwesome]

Mavis: her legs are no where near as yellow as Audreys

time zone difference lol...

Looks like her legs just have a dark wash on them. They’re still genetically yellow.

 

[Poultry mum]

Audrey even has that fluff ball of a tail like mavis lol so I don’t know... I do take on board what your all saying but I just don’t know... maybe I should just ask her... lol she’ll probably peck my eyes out if I called her a boy and she isn’t lol

 

[Poultry mum]

Looks like her legs just have a dark wash on them. They’re still genetically yellow.

Oh ok.. some days it’s hard to see her legs I had to make her “run” to get a photo of them lol

 

[CaliFarmsAR]

i know this is off-topic but... is it just me or does it look like Audrey has long legs?

It’s because he is a rooster.

 

[Trisseh]

Still looking masculine to me as well. But so much healthier!

Also a thought, if you have other boys, sometimes they’ll suppress the behaviours in lower ranked cockerels. I hatched 3 hedemora chicks, all cockerels, and the lowest one on the totem pole didn’t start crowing until he was in the house due to some frostbite, away from the others entirely. By his behaviour when he was outside with everyone else, you could have sworn he was a pullet, although he is otherwise pretty obviously male. He’s a wooly so he doesn’t have the same feathering (hes silkied) and it’s hard to see his saddles, so it would be easy to assume he was a pullet if you didn’t take the other clues into consideration.