Olive Egger Pullet or Cockerel?

[Shmeganigans]

Back again with a couple of 8 week old olive eggers. The darker one I feel fairly confident is a pullet, but the white one has me second-guessing. The pea comb appears to be single row without any darkening red coloration nor larger size. Feathers appear more rounded than pointy….but the tail! Totally curving down.
We think she had a rough start (we got “her” at 3 weeks old), so maybe her tail is just not developing quite yet? Would love to hear thoughts.

A side note: we’ll be introducing these to two pullets and a rooster who are about 2 months older. We’ve had them hanging out in this separate area just outside the big run so they can all see each other. I read introducing them at night is a good first step toward actual integration. Any other recommendations? I’m mostly worried about the roo since he’s been very hormonal lately and even his 2 pullets are avoiding him it seems.

 

[lori_smith99]

Looks like a pullet to me but I am a newbie too. I have an Olive egger this same age and she has had that little comb since she was 2 wks old but it never got red or really big at all

 

[3KillerBs]

Tails are meaningless until the birds have their adult plumage.

Within the next month the saddle feathers will tell the story.

 

[Painted Calls]

Tails are meaningless until the birds have their adult plumage.

Agreed.

Both are pullets.

 

[Shmeganigans]

Oh thank goodness! We had two roos in our last chick flock and had to rehome one of them. Would hate to have to go through that again!

Good to know about tails. I wasn’t putting a lot of weight on that, but it concerned me and made me think twice.

Thanks again!

 

[SilverBirds]

Pullets.

 

[Lemon-Drop]

Pullets!