Production red... roo?

[wanda047]

I am in the process of selling my 4 production reds (1 cockerel and 3 pullets) Here's a photo of my cockerel. However, my 12-yr-old daughter is arguing with me... "Where's his wattles?" She thinks it is a pullet. My little pullets have very small combs... as shown in the second photo (chic in back). So is Big Red a cockerel or a pullet?

Here's a close up of Big Red's comb. Has he just not grown his wattles yet? These birds are 8-9 weeks old. And what about those feathers growing out wildly about his face?

 

[SpringChickens]

definitely a roo... no doubt.

 

[HenPen]

I say Roo but he looks more like a Buff Ameraucana Cockerel,looks like he has the muffs and beard of one...here is a link to them on Feather site http://www.feathersite.com/Poultry/CGA/Arau/BRKAmer.html

 

[wanda047]

I checked out those photos and you're right. He does resemble the Buff
Ameraucana cockerel. The gentleman I bought the chicks from only raised buff orpingtons and production reds though. I supposedly bought 16 BO, but once they started feathering, I realized he had given me 4 of the Production reds instead. The PR all have blue legs and feet and black tips on their wing feathers, not to mention they are red instead of buff.
These four are easy to pick out of my flock of birds because of their red color.

I do agree he's a roo. He's much bigger than the rest of the group who are all the same age, thus his name, "Big Red".