OK!!! Dumb question......new pic added

[peewee]

This sweetie was sold to me about 3 weeks ago as a hen. The more that I look at her the more I see rooster. I have been trying to integrate her into my flock and my loverboy of a roo who loves ALL the ladies does not seem to care to have her around.

She is great with my baby chicks and watches them closely when I let them out. I can't tell if she is being motherly or, if this is a roo, if he is just starting to gather his ladies at a early age.

What do you guys think??

 

[magsrags]

pretty bird, I hope it's a hen for you. I am the last one to make a determination.

 

[mikarod]

Sorry, that looks like a red sex-link cockerel.

It's got the pointy neck and saddle feathers coming in. That's a dead give-away.

Red sex-link hens should be a reddish color and the males are a white color. They are color sexed at birth.

 

[LilPeeps]

That is a cockerel.

 

[huppfarm]

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yep, that is the factor! pullets and hens will have round ended feathers on the neck and saddle.

 

[Gercarson]

Sorry, but that sweetie is a cockerel.

 

[Mahonri]

Almost looks like a Red Pyle game roo. I don't believe it is a red sex link roo as it's ears are white.

 

[mikarod]

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hehehe...chickens don't have ears. lol. The ear coverts are white, but the earlobe, to me at least, looks red.

I shush now...lol

 

[sandypaws]

i dont quite see the saddle feathers... but those neck feathers scream ROOSTER!!!!... i also thought "red pyle"

the sex-linked roosters i had were ALL white.. no other color

 

[peewee]

See those neck feathers are what had me thinking more and more that she/he was a rooster. I don't see any saddle feathers coming in yet and thats what had me clinging to the belief that she was a girl. The bend in his longest tail feathers was because of being in a small box for transport. OH WELL... at least he is a very submissive roo for the moment. My big rooster hasn't tried to kill him..... yet.
Thanks for the replies. I just wanted to hear it from other people that my sweetie was a boy.