Not Sure If You've Got A Pullet Or Cockerel? Click Here! Thread 2

[Wishing4Wings]

If they are bluntly rounded, they are pullet feathers.
Male saddle feather are sharply pointed, thin, and very shiny.
Do you have a side view pic of the white one in question?

 

[Wishing4Wings]

It will be 9 weeks old tomorrow. I am pretty sure I tried to look for saddle feathers, but don't remember why I couldn't tell

If they are white, they would be harder to see. The gold on the black is like a big red flag!

 

[Wishing4Wings]

That comb is pretty red for a nine wk pullet, and the it's fairly lumpy, so I'm leaning toward cockerel, but really not sure. A side view might help, but at 9 wks, male feathers probably aren't visible quite yet. Got to dig for them!

 

[VintageLilFarm]

If they are bluntly rounded, they are pullet feathers.
Male saddle feather are sharply pointed, thin, and very shiny.
Do you have a side view pic of the white one in question?

I don't but I'll take one tomorrow.

 

[debid]

Are these girl feathers?
View attachment 1375512

I think you reversed your pictures.
That yellow feather looks male. See how it's pointed and looks different from the feathers around it?

 

[VintageLilFarm]

I think you reversed your pictures.
That yellow feather looks male. See how it's pointed and looks different from the feathers around it?

Actually the yellow feathers on black are on almost this entire bird (see pic), a Pavlovskaya. The solid black are underneath, like new saddle feathers. The crest is pretty small and behavior is more like a pullet.

 

[Emzegrey]

5-6 week silver laced Wyandotte

 

[VintageLilFarm]

If they are white, they would be harder to see. The gold on the black is like a big red flag!

I dug a little deeper and this is a roo. Long, more creamy saddle feathers coming in. So, looks like *at least* 5 out of 6 in that hatch are boys.

 

[debid]

Actually the yellow feathers on black are on almost this entire bird (see pic), a Pavlovskaya. The solid black are underneath, like new saddle feathers. The crest is pretty small and behavior is more like a pullet.
View attachment 1375927

Gorgeous bird. Male saddles (if present) should be a golden shade, not black, on a bird this color. If this one is 9 weeks as well, you're only at the beginning of the window for them to be visible but with the complete lack of comb development, I think you may have a pullet. The yellow feathers in this image look quite blunt. The pointy looking one in the first image must have been camera angle.

 

[debid]

View attachment 1375933 5-6 week silver laced Wyandotte

With silver, you'd be looking for white patches coming on the wing and lower back and a decrease in patterning at the juvenile molt. So, too young yet for certainty but no comb color is promising if you're hoping for a pullet.