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

[MallardNight3]

Ok have to ask 3 more of my chickens I believe are males 14 weeks I believe all three are black sex link roosters but need to be sure due to catching this guy sitting on the golf ball and protecting it from me I figured I should check.

 

[junebuggena]

Ok have to ask 3 more of my chickens I believe are males 14 weeks I believe all three are black sex link roosters but need to be sure due to catching this guy sitting on the golf ball and protecting it from me I figured I should check.

Not a Black Sexlink, but definitely a male. Black sexlink males are barred, they look nothing like the pullets. That is, after all, the point of sexlinking.

 

[MallardNight3]

Second I think male, may be black sexlink 14 weeks

 

[MallardNight3]

Third I think male 14 weeks and taking forever to get a tail.

 

[MallardNight3]

Not a Black Sexlink, but definitely a male. Black sexlink males are barred, they look nothing like the pullets. That is, after all, the point of sexlinking.

Do you have any clue what it might be? I got it in a mystery mix from tractor supply that the box was unmarked when shipped, with 3 males and 2 females and one female is a black sex link

 

[MallardNight3]

first female with the mystery box

 

[MallardNight3]

Second female from mystery mix, but the box had all types of colors

 

[MontanaChickDoc]

[/IMG] 5 week old cockerel?

 

[jcooper3]

Hi all! I am a first time chicken owner, with a small back yard flock of 6 heritage breed chickens. They are all 11 weeks old. I have a BO which I suspect is a cockerel. Clementine is not aggressive, but she/he has dominant to all the other birds from Day 1. However, she/he is my sweetest lap chicken, and I cannot bear to re-home her if it turns out she is actually "Clem".












Tail feathers






Hackle feathers







In addition to these images, I can also attest that her feet are big for her body, and her plumage has spots of extremely bright orange, shiny feathers mixed in with the more "matte" feathers. My lavender Orp does not show this plumage pattern. She/he is not crowing, but on 2 separate occasions in the early morning she made a strange moaning noise that could have been a practice crow.

If this is a cockerel I will have him caponized, but I need to know for sure before we open him up and go digging for his gold nuggets.

 

[MallardNight3]

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