drake we thought it was a female well after all "her" sister hens were laying we thought maybe she was stunted and then hubby went out this winter and he was viciously raping ALL the chickens every 10 seconds hubby put off the culling for two weeks and in that time the buff was ravaged so bad all her back feathers were gone and the roos were not much better ( when its nice the free range and have room we never had any issue) its our first year needless to say we learned a lot about chicken rape -_-