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

[junebuggena]

How about this one? How many times did I get fooled by my seller?

Pullet. Do you see how different the feathers on her back are from the two boys?

 

[jen727]

Oh, I thought I was looking at the tail specifically, which looked pretty similar. But yes, I see how the back feathers are different now.

Thank goodness she's really a she, or I was going to be pretty upset. She's one of our favorites. Thanks again; you're the best!

 

[jenniferlamar70]

7 week old ameraucana. I thought cockerel for sure but then it's comb never darkened and it's brothers did.

 

[junebuggena]

7 week old ameraucana. I thought cockerel for sure but then it's comb never darkened and it's brothers did.

That's a cockerel. Some are just slower to mature.

 

[jenniferlamar70]

How can you tell? I'm just curious.

 

[junebuggena]

How can you tell? I'm just curious.

The comb is too pink and too developed for a bird that still has chick down lingering on the head. Ameraucana can be very slow to mature.

 

[jenniferlamar70]

The comb is too pink and too developed for a bird that still has chick down lingering on the head. Ameraucana can be very slow to mature.

Do they feather in similar to easter eggers?

 

[jenniferlamar70]

This one is from the same parents and it's for sure a rooster..

 

[junebuggena]

Do they feather in similar to easter eggers?

They are usually slower to feather and mature than Easter Eggers. And just because a two birds have the same parents, it does not mean that they will mature and develop at the exact same rate. Submissive cockerels do usually take longer to turn red.

 

[MKWhite36]

5 months no crow