Rooster laying eggs

[My Roo Boo]

So I have a Polish chicken. I bought about 7 or 8 months ago and it is a rooster and it started laying eggs today

 

[Ecarroll]

How do you know it is laying eggs?
How do you know it is a rooster?

These are my main questions, because probably either it is actually a hen, or it did not actually lay an egg.

 

[fluffycrow]

I’d expect to see way more male-specific feathering on a 7-8 month old.

Laying an egg doesn’t leave much room for doubt

 

[Lacy Duckwing]

I think your pretty bird is a hen. Roosters will have more pointy feathers, a longer and pointer tail, and a bigger comb. Congrats on the egg!

 

[OrpingtonManiac]

Welcome to BYC, Laura!
Looks like a pullet to me

 

[Apis mellifera]

Laying = hen
Crowing = rooster

 

[RoostersAreAwesome]

This is a hen, why did you think she was a rooster? I have two bantam hens who crow, if that’s what happened to you

 

[My Roo Boo]

How do you know it is laying eggs?
How do you know it is a rooster?

These are my main questions, because probably either it is actually a hen, or it did not actually lay an egg.

It has all the signs of a rooster the beard, the saddle feathers. The attitude attacks everything Spurs things and it is my only chicken that I own. It's an indoor chicken and one day we left for the whole day he was in his cage and I came back and there was an egg in it

 

[FuzzyDinoNuggets]

It has all the signs of a rooster the beard, the saddle feathers. The attitude attacks everything Spurs things and it is my only chicken that I own. It's an indoor chicken and one day we left for the whole day he was in his cage and I came back and there was an egg in it

If it layed an egg, it is 100% a pullet

 

[BigBlueHen53]

Female birds can lay eggs even if there is no rooster around. Only females can lay eggs, males cannot. Females can be feisty and attack things, but that does not make it a male. Your bird is 100% a female. It may have fooled you, but she has always been a girl and always will be!