ROOSTER OR HEN?

[mimithewhiteLEGHORN]

this is my 8 weeks old leghorn, it's my first time to take care of a chicken so i can't tell if this is rooster or hen. what do you think?

 

[The Moonshiner]

That bird is only 8 weeks old with a comb like that
It's gotta be a male. But ya my males would take months to get a comb that size.
Unlike popular belief female Leghorns don't get their huge combs until they're laying or about to. Most of mine don't even get much color in theirs until then.

 

[fluffycrow]

Male specific feathering won't show for another month. I've had multiple white leghorns over the years, and no pullet has ever had that kind of comb before laying. But I digress. We have a leghorn expert here, so let's see what he has to say @The Moonshiner

 

[mimithewhiteLEGHORN]

Cockerel

thank you so much for helping me

 

[Backcountrychickens]

I think it's a hen. I have leghorns of my own and the hens tend to have huge combs. Cockerels have large curved tail feathers and hackles.

 

[mimithewhiteLEGHORN]

We need more pictures, especially ones that show the chicken's side, but for now I am voting for cockerel. For information, an eight-week-old chicken can never be a rooster or a hen. A chicken can only be a rooster or a hen when they reach adult, which is one year old. Females under a year old are pullets, males under a year old are cockerels. Also, do you have other chickens besides this one? Chickens are flock birds and need at least one other chicken in order to not get lonely and depressed, and then eventually, ill. There are times when some chickens can be by themself, such as house chickens, but it is better for them to be outside and with their own kind.

here is the another side

 

[mimithewhiteLEGHORN]

We need more pictures, especially ones that show the chicken's side, but for now I am voting for cockerel. For information, an eight-week-old chicken can never be a rooster or a hen. A chicken can only be a rooster or a hen when they reach adult, which is one year old. Females under a year old are pullets, males under a year old are cockerels. Also, do you have other chickens besides this one? Chickens are flock birds and need at least one other chicken in order to not get lonely and depressed, and then eventually, ill. There are times when some chickens can be by themself, such as house chickens, but it is better for them to be outside and with their own kind.

no i only have one, but im planning to get another one

 

[mimithewhiteLEGHORN]

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That bird is only 8 weeks old with a comb like that
It's gotta be a male. But ya my males would take months to get a comb that size.
Unlike popular belief female Leghorns don't get their huge combs until they're laying or about to. Most of mine don't even get much color in theirs until then.

do you have any idea why he already have a large comb? im actually not sure about his age because i just bought him from a vendor whose selling colored chicks that what he is from and i just predict that he is 8 weeks old because i bought him on sept. 24 and you can see in the picture what he looks like and i predict that he got out from his egg from sept 20 and today he is turning 9 weeks old

 

[mimithewhiteLEGHORN]

Genetics can cause unusual comb size. You bought him from a person selling colored chicks? Like, dyed chicks? People like that absolutely disgust me, you are never supposed to dye any kind of bird.

yes, dyed chicks. when there's a festival happening here in the Philippines there are always selling dyed chicks

 

[nuthatched]

Without doubt, a cockerel.