Pullet or Cockerel?

[cldavis1019]

We bought these eight week EE the other day and were told they were all pullets. I’m starting to wonder about this one because of its behavior recently, and its tail feathers are a lot longer than all of the others. What are your guesses?

 

[Tookie]

You have a pullet!

 

[CaliforniaMountainChicks]

Pullet

 

[Nero70002]

Pullet

 

[Sussex19]

Pullet!

 

[fluffycrow]

Pullet. Sometimes pullets can grow long tail feathers as well, it's the structure that differentiates it from male

 

[cldavis1019]

Pullet. Sometimes pullets can grow long tail feathers as well, it's the structure that differentiates it from male

I know male feathers will arch but once she started acting like a turd I started obsessing over how her tail looked different haha She went to chicken jail for a day and that seemed to help.

 

[fluffycrow]

I know male feathers will arch but once she started acting like a turd I started obsessing over how her tail looked different haha She went to chicken jail for a day and that seemed to help.

So how was she acting that made you think cockerel? Temperament sexing is highly ineffective at this age

 

[Tookie]

I know male feathers will arch but once she started acting like a turd I started obsessing over how her tail looked different haha She went to chicken jail for a day and that seemed to help.

Male specific feathering doesn't come in until at least 12 weeks of age.

 

[Tookie]

So how was she acting that made you think cockerel? Temperament sexing is highly ineffective at this age

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