Pullet or Cockerel? Ameraucana.....It's official/Got a new name :)

[Cowgirl71]

Hmmmmm. Those pics do make it look more rooish. Could you maybe post a couple more pics following Wynette's guidelines

: https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=207665

banjoejoe4783: I don't see any saddle feathers???

 

[banjoejoe4783]

look again they are there

 

[ArizonaDesertChicks]

Quote:
The only pic that gives a good shot of the saddle feathers is on page 1 (middle pic). In that photo, the saddle feathers are very clearly rounded.


Edited to add: The pea comb should be getting dark at 6 months of age (she was hatched in April) - a cockerel would have a much larger and darker comb by 6 months old --- I'm assuming the pictures are current.

 

[wolftracks]

I'm having a hard time getting the pics I took this past week up.

The others were taken at the time I started this thread, so 6 months old at the time.

Here's the only one I can get to download on my laptop right now, but I took a few more. I love this bird, so can never have enough pics.

She moves when I even try to sneak up on her.

 

[Illia]

Still, I say a definite cockerel. For one, that coloring is a dead giveaway.

 

[wolftracks]

But he's so pretty I love posting picks of him. LOL

 

[chicken wild]

looks like a pullet to me

 

[banjoejoe4783]

the AR breaders say ROO no queston it is a ROO

 

[ArizonaDesertChicks]

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The AR breeders are using color as the guide in sexing this chicken and may have missed her age in WolfTracks original post.

This Ameraucana pullet doesn't have very good 'Blue' coloring, but.....

She is 6 months old in those pics and has a small comb and rounded saddle feathers - the rounded saddle feathers, small comb, and lack of crowing at the mature age of 6 months old (almost 7) trump the dark splashes on her shoulders. A 6 1/2 month old cockerel would have long, stringy, pointed saddle feathers by now. I'm sure she'll be laying soon.

I know this is a totally different breed, but I'm using these 2 girls as an example of the color issue - 1 of these Blue Andalusian pullets has dark splashes, 1 does not - both grew up to be hens:

 

[Cowgirl71]

I still vote pullet. If the bird is a six month old cockerel, then he wins the smallest-comb-for-his-age-and-gender contest by far.