Yup, I'd bet money on boy. He appears to have disproportionately long legs and what look like sickle feathers starting to curve. That comb and wattles on a long neck are suspect too. With the white, it can be harder to differentiate hackle and saddle feathers, but profile and stature alone scream cock to me. Here is a photo of a 12 week delaware cross cockerel to give you some comparison to your guy.
Grow up to this very quickly.
Here are a couple about half way between
You can also turn the feathers up on his neck and see if there are extra pin-feathers getting ready to sprout out underneath and form a nice thick hackle. Again, with the all white it will be a bit harder to tell.
Okay, so I knew that one of my chickens was still peeping and today I realized it was the white one. So, stupid question: do roosters stop peeping before they start crowing? Also, could this chicken be younger than I thought-i was told "she" was 4-5 months old
Okay, so I knew that one of my chickens was still peeping and today I realized it was the white one. So, stupid question: do roosters stop peeping before they start crowing? Also, could this chicken be younger than I thought-i was told "she" was 4-5 months old
Well, not necessarily since I've had chicks crow as early as 4 days old, many during their first week of life. Naturally, they don't do it often, but I've ID'd many cockerels right in the brooder the first week of life just by this so of course, they are still peeping. Generally, they go from peeping to a teenage honk to a kazoo to a real crow, LOL.
Well, not necessarily since I've had chicks crow as early as 4 days old, many during their first week of life. Naturally, they don't do it often, but I've ID'd many cockerels right in the brooder the first week of life just by this so of course, they are still peeping. Generally, they go from peeping to a teenage honk to a kazoo to a real crow, LOL.
not in my town. I live in west tx and it might as well be Mexico. Cock fighting culture is prevalent here and its impossible to find any chickens that aren't bred to be aggressive. I have a toddler, so a mean chicken is out of the question. So far I've only found two people with chickens in town that don't raise them to fight, one is the person who sold me my gals and the other is a lady who is on BYC and doesn't have any spare roos for adoption. She's the only other BYCer that I know of locally. :-(
My white leghorn hens have giant bright red combs and spur nubs but they give me an egg a day. Don't count on the white one being a roo just yet. I could've sworn the chick in my avatar was a boy, but she wasn't.
Your first pictures looks like a white Leghorn mix to me. They're an exceedingly common breed, and I've met people who were told they were buying a completely different breed... but got a Leghorn instead. Matter of fact, I have two chickens due in part to such swindling. They were both supposed to be Ameraucana pullets, but one was a EE roo and the other was a white Leghorn through and through. They lay earlier than other breeds so keep an eye for a white egg in your nest box.
Your later pics however look far more like a boy. 'She' might just have a giant comb (but if it's a she, a comb that large will probably flop over to one side, which 'hers' doesn't appear to be doing. Have to say, the chick in those pictures looks like a boy to me (and a fierce eyed one at that!). Check out those legs too! Does 'her' chest seem more developed than 'her' contemporaries.
My white leghorn hens have giant bright red combs and spur nubs but they give me an egg a day. Don't count on the white one being a roo just yet. I could've sworn the chick in my avatar was a boy, but she wasn't.
Your first pictures looks like a white Leghorn mix to me. They're an exceedingly common breed, and I've met people who were told they were buying a completely different breed... but got a Leghorn instead. Matter of fact, I have two chickens due in part to such swindling. They were both supposed to be Ameraucana pullets, but one was a EE roo and the other was a white Leghorn through and through. They lay earlier than other breeds so keep an eye for a white egg in your nest box.
Your later pics however look far more like a boy. 'She' might just have a giant comb (but if it's a she, a comb that large will probably flop over to one side, which 'hers' doesn't appear to be doing. Have to say, the chick in those pictures looks like a boy to me (and a fierce eyed one at that!). Check out those legs too! Does 'her' chest seem more developed than 'her' contemporaries.
thanks I was actually going to take a picture of her before she went to bed, but then I realized my dogs had murdered my chubby barred rock. :-( I'll post a picture tomorrow though
So I was outside mending the coop and I noticed that my white hen had what appeared to be pointy saddle feathers coming through. I have a poor quality picture that kinda shows one!
