Pullet or Cockerel?

[StephensonC]

Lavender Ameraucana 12 weeks old. Pullet or Cockerel?

 

[Wyandottes7]

I'm thinking pullet.

 

[js98]

I'm thinking pullet

 

[BantamLover21]

I'm leaning towards pullet, too.

 

[arr36]

I'm flummoxed! These two birds are siblings - cross between cream legbar mother and bantam Pekin father. I have always understood that offspring of barred hens are always male if barred. These are both barred but at 8m old one is so clearly a cockerel - bright red and well developed comb and wattles, pin feathers, tail feathers, cocky, standing upright- and the other has basically no male features at all. Is it possible to produce a barred pullet from this cross? At 8 months I would have expected it to be more obvious by now if s/he were male.

 

[Gray Farms]

The sexlinking only works with a barred hen and a genetically gold male. Like a red for instance. What color was you male?

 

[arr36]

He's white

 

[Gray Farms]

That's why it didn't work then. Have to have a genetically red male to make sexlinked chicks.

 

[arr36]

Oh right, thanks. So it could be a barred female?

The sexlinking only works with a barred hen and a genetically gold male. Like a red for instance. What color was you male?

That's why it didn't work then. Have to have a genetically red male to make sexlinked chicks.

 

[Gray Farms]

Yes, looks like a female to me