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

[2hnznroo]

I can never thank you enough. Wow so much info. I'm loving this new world I just discovered . It's wonderful people like you paying it forward.

 

[bnb2108]

Whoops, just started a new thread, then saw this. 13 week SLW:

Thanks!

 

[Dskura]

Look at the back feathers. All are cockerels.

Gaahhhhhhhh

 

[jennylane99]

Just got these 3 chicks from the county fair. The sign said golden red pullets. Are these red enough to be pullets? I can take a better picture too.

 

[junebuggena]

Just got these 3 chicks from the county fair. The sign said golden red pullets. Are these red enough to be pullets? I can take a better picture too.

Look like red sexlinks to me. And if they are a first generation cross, they are pullets. If they are second generation, then there is no sexlinking.

 

[BeefChicken]

Without an age, can't really help. 8 week old cockerels look a lot like 5 month old pullets.

got ya! It doesn't really matter. I will post pics of it later when its obvious. Thank you

 

[JayJo]

Anyone want to make a guess on pullet or cockerel? I'm confused about the black one standing alone. (It does have two legs but it just standing on one in the photo. Hard to get a good photo. It's kind of skittish.) It's 8 weeks old. It's either a Maran or an Olive Egger (Maran x Cream Legbar, I think.) Chicks that hatched from the same batch are in the photo on the right, clearly a pullet (also Maran or Olive Egger) and clearly a cockerel (Cream Legbar, autosexed). But the lone black one, I'm not sure. I would have said cockerel except that red comb hasn't really gotten any bigger, and it doesn't act like a cockerel as much as the Cream Legbar does.



(Added another photo showing the tail feathers)

 

[junebuggena]

Anyone want to make a guess on pullet or cockerel? I'm confused about the black one standing alone. (It does have two legs but it just standing on one in the photo. Hard to get a good photo. It's kind of skittish.) It's 8 weeks old. It's either a Maran or an Olive Egger (Maran x Cream Legbar, I think.) Chicks that hatched from the same batch are in the photo on the right, clearly a pullet (also Maran or Olive Egger) and clearly a cockerel (Cream Legbar, autosexed). But the lone black one, I'm not sure. I would have said cockerel except that red comb hasn't really gotten any bigger, and it doesn't act like a cockerel as much as the Cream Legbar does.



(Added another photo showing the tail feathers)

Cockerel. And probably a second or third generation Olive Egger, with Marans and Easter Egger in his mix. The black one in the picture with the Legbar is suspicious as well, with that dark red in the shoulder.

 

[JayJo]

Cockerel. And probably a second or third generation Olive Egger, with Marans and Easter Egger in his mix. The black one in the picture with the Legbar is suspicious as well, with that dark red in the shoulder.

Thanks! Yeah, that was what I thought, but lately I've second-guessed myself so wanted to be sure.

You're saying the other black one might be a cockerel? Or a second-gen Olive Egger? I think it's likely that it's a second-gen olive egger, and I may be wrong about the genetics of their olive eggers. I assumed cream legbar since they also breed cream legbars but could be easter eggers...

 

[jenniferlamar70]

Need some help with one of my cochins. I'm pretty sure cockerel but hoping pullet. They are almost 5 weeks now. I'll post the others for comparison. Thanks.
Black pullet.

Blue partridge cockerel

Left partridge gender unknown. Right barred cockerel.

Different angle of partridge gender unknown.