Roo or Pullet

[Harley Chick]

I've heard that wyndottes mature differently than other chickens but my Stella is looking mighty red in the face......is she a Stanley instead?

 

[Roo5]

No still looking like pullet

 

[EggSighted4Life]

Hi there.

Please, what is the age?

That just looks like flushing to me.

In laced breeds... very often the lacing is faded into more of a really wide bar on the shoulder wing area of cockerels... while the pullets will *usually* keep nice clear lacing.

Reference pic from Whelp hatchery...

 

[TwentyOneChickens]

I think she's a pullet.

 

[Harley Chick]

Oh sorry everyone, she's about 5 weeks old......

 

[BuffOrps32]

Oh sorry everyone, she's about 5 weeks old......

Ummmm.... then it hangs in the balance but pullet for now

 

[Harley Chick]

Ummmm.... then it hangs in the balance but pullet for now

 

[BuffOrps32]

Also appears to be clean lacing, another tell tale so... Going with pullet until proven otherwise

 

[Harley Chick]

Hi there.

Please, what is the age?

That just looks like flushing to me.

In laced breeds... very often the lacing is faded into more of a really wide bar on the shoulder wing area of cockerels... while the pullets will *usually* keep nice clear lacing.

Reference pic from Whelp hatchery...

Question, i'm new to this breed and what a roo looks like in the feathering stages but what is "clear Lacing"?

 

[BuffOrps32]

Question, i'm new to this breed and what a roo looks like in the feathering stages but what is "clear Lacing"?

I believe that clear lacing is like a very pronounced lacing. It isn't very obvious that it is a laced pullet. The pic is not to good so here is a clear laced pullet: