Please help us settle this once and for all!

[acmommy1]

We purchased this bird from the feed store at a week or two old. Around 8 weeks we heard crowing, and assumed it was this bird, so we dropped it off at the feed store. A month later we returned to the same store to pick up food, and they informed us that we had turned in a hen and NOT a rooster, so we happily brought it home, and reintroduced it to the flock. (which was TOUGH) This bird was at the top of the pecking order before it left, and we can't tell if it is just trying to regain it's position, or if it's hopping on the ladies for reproductive purposes. This bird never crows, and it has none of the long pointy tail feathers that I would have expected in a 5 month old rooster, but the feathers around the neck are very much those of a rooster. Feed store says girl. I say boy. What is UP with this bird?

 

[acmommy1]

I should point out that the crowing that sent this bird to the feed store in the first place was NOT from this bird. It was a Cornish rooster that we had just assumed was a hen. This bird has never made a peep!

 

[keesmom]

Cockerel. I see saddle feathers.

 

[SilkieSensation]

Looks like a red star roo to me.