Pullets or roo?

[newchickenmom33]

We added 3 RIR about 9 weeks ago and they are supposed to be pullets but one seems to be a roo. Can you tell? Sorry the pictures aren’t so great. They are supposed to be all hatched at the same time and 9 weeks old. One pic is when they were only a few weeks old. One looked very different from the other two. Let me know what you think. Thanks

 

[Gray Farms]

Pullets, they are New Hampshire Reds.

 

[sourland]

So far they look like pullets to me.

 

[Birds of a Feather]

It's hard to tell from those pictures, but they all look like pullets except for possibly the chicken on the right in the last photo and the chicken in back in the second-to-last photo.

 

[newchickenmom33]

Okay. Just one has curly stuff happening in the tail and neck. I’ll try to take a better picture but they are very shy.

 

[sourland]

Okay. Just one has curly stuff happening in the tail and neck. I’ll try to take a better picture but they are very shy.

'Curly stuff' not much of a problem - slender, point, shiny stuff - masculine.

 

[newchickenmom33]

'Curly stuff' not much of a problem - slender, point, shiny stuff - masculine.

I’m going to get closer pictures. You were right about two months ago on my older birds when I thought a red face meant roo ... Now i know they all turn red it’s just a matter of when. This particular one I’m concerned about is hard to catch... I try to handle them all so if needed it’s not too uncomfortable but this one doesn’t like much interaction.

 

[newchickenmom33]

These are more pictures of the one I’m not sure about. I could hold him and spread his wing while trying to take a pic . Still think it’s a pullets?

 

[sourland]

I'm still going with pullet.

 

[newchickenmom33]

Good I hope you’re right! . It would be good. So her short tail is okay and the neck feathers? They all supposed to be the same breed but this one took longer to feather and still is smaller than the rest and has shorter feathers.