Need to know gender of 12 week Delaware

Roo

 

I see a whole bunch of cockerels.

This one doesn't have barring because it is a Columbian Rock, not a Delaware. That or the hatcheries really have bad breeding.

 

Roos. All roos.

 

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All roosters.

 

The one in question is a rooster. I'm looking at legs, comb, wattles, tail and hackle feathers to make that call.

 

When I was wrestling with determining the gender of my 2 Dels this summer, a breeder said that males had barred tail feathers (like the bird in the background in your 2nd picture) ON THE ADULTS. Females have feathers that are black with white edges. BUT you can't use tailfeathers as a determining factor until they get their adult feathers. At that time I had one bird with barred feathers and one with white edged black tail feathers. Both turned out to be girls and are both laying.

On the same token, those tailfeathers are certainly curved downward compared to my girls' tails. http://picasaweb.google.com/sharol46/Almost14Weeks# Lucy and Angel are the 2 Dels at 14 weeks in these pictures. Note that their tails are much shorter than your bird and don't curve down. My girls came from MPC so they are hatchery quality.