Need one last Gender

[jen61871]

Can I get the Gender on this little guy or gal?

 

[Chicken Girl1]

Is it supposed to be a Barred Rock? If so I think you may have a cockerel.

 

[jen61871]

Is it supposed to be a Barred Rock? If so I think you may have a cockerel.

He may be mixed with a calafornia grey-which look just like a barred rock, but they are not pure bread they are hatched from my flock.
Ok thanks

 

[RhodeRunner]

With barred and cuckoo birds, you can sex them by their color. The females have larger black bars, and darker shanks, giving them a general darker appearance. The males have larger white bars, yellower shanks, which gives them a general lighter appearance. Based on color sexing, you have a pullet. Color sexing isn't always right with barred/cuckoo crosses, but generally that is the way this color goes.

 

[Chicken Girl1]

Very true, I didn't quite right what I was thinking. I was looking more at the comb and legs since the coloring didn't seem standard. Though I would like to say that hatcheries these days aren't keeping to standards and I know a few members in here who have gotten pullets that had cockerel colored barring but still turned out to be hens, @speckledhen has a perfect example.

 

[speckledhen]

Very true, I didn't quite right what I was thinking. I was looking more at the comb and legs since the coloring did seem standard. Though I would like to say that hatcheries these days aren't keeping to standards and I know a few members in here who have gotten pullets that had cockerel colored barring but still turned out to be hens, @speckledhen has a perfect example.

yup, my very first BR was cockerel colored so everyone on BYC thought she was a he for weeks and weeks, until her comb stayed small at 12 weeks. That is the exception to the rule.

That bird can't be sexed like a normal barred bird because it's a cross.

 

[drumstick diva]

agree