Roo or 2 pullets? 20 weeks old Speckled Sussex

[Ol Grey Mare]

Two lovely ladies!

 

[Barry42001]

With regards to laying eggs remember you're starting to get into the fall / winter that will also be and impediment laying eggs although young birds sometimes lay all through the winter

 

[Barry42001]

I also kept speckled Sussex and the one on your lap looks like a rooster in fact when you see him running or walking around the yard you can see the beginning of the spur point on the inside of his one leg unless I'm totally going blind the color of the comb is a dead giveaway hands never get that red

 

[Barry42001]

I lost it kept speckled and the one on your lap looks like a rooster in fact when you see him running or walking around the yard you can see the beginning of the spur point on the inside of his one leg unless I'm totally going blind the color of the comb is a dead giveaway hands never get that red

I see at least one hen smallish comb and dull red

 

[Barry42001]

https://www.backyardchickens.com/attachments/ccf5dff4-217b-4465-8ea4-b465d8c98635-jpeg.1560822/
Look closely at the inside of the leg he's standing on roughly halfway between the foot and where the feathers begin. You should notice the enlarged scale that is the beginning of a spur

 

[sassysarah]

do you mean there?

 

[Barry42001]

Yep that be it coupled with the enlarged comb and waddle and the Deep Red comb I'm almost 100% certain that's a roo. Hens just don't develop those physical characteristics. Yeah they're comb will get a little bigger, the Waddles get a little bigger but I've never seen a hen develop that large pointed scale that inevitably becomes a spur

 

[teira]

Those look like pullets to me! Both have round saddle feathers and appear to be much too mature for any of them to be a late cockerels, as for the little spur, all hens will have those little "buds", some hens even grow spurs themselves! I am by no means an expert but that's just from my experiences

 

[sassysarah]

Yep that be it coupled with the enlarged comb and waddle and the Deep Red comb I'm almost 100% certain that's a roo. Hens just don't develop those physical characteristics. Yeah they're comb will get a little bigger, the Waddles get a little bigger but I've never seen a hen develop that large pointed scale that inevitably becomes a spur

all of my hens have those.

 

[Barry42001]

Well I'm sorry I'm certainly not trying to give you misleading information I'm certainly not as learned As some of the others please accept my apologies it was not my intent to missing for you or mislead. That I will withdraw from this thread