Pullet or cockerel . I’m just not sure.

[free range by day]

Is this a pullet or cockerel?

*12 weeks old

*Came with my order of 15 day old
Sexlink pullets

*All of the chicks were all black
with this one ( the only one) having a
light white patch on its head.

I figured it was a cockerel right off the bat sense black sexlink chicks are born black with the males having a white patch on their head. I figured the hatchery just made a mistake in putting a male in my order . But now that it’s 12 weeks old and still looks hen-ish. I wonder if they just put a barred rock pullet in my order? Hoping it’s a female. I’m not seeing obvious male or saddle feathers.

 

[sourland]

It's a cockerel.

 

[HorseGirlAbby]

Yep, cockerel for sure.

 

[free range by day]

I thought so, but was hoping I was wrong.

 

[free range by day]

It's a cockerel.

Darn, I thought so. I knew the day I opened the box at the post office. I was just hoping I was wrong. I kept looking at the tail feathers and and comb but was too hopeful.