Rooster? Partridge Rock

[MamaHen11]

So, I got this chick on 12 August. And it already had feathers on its wings but fluff on its body. So I'm thinking it was about 10 days old or so at that time? Either way, now it's about Four weeks old. You could see the comb coming in. rooster? I know certain breeds have more prominent combs.

 

[Lamaremybabies]

View attachment 1126296 View attachment 1126295 View attachment 1126297 So, I got this chick on 12 August. And it already had feathers on its wings but fluff on its body. So I'm thinking it was about 10 days old or so at that time? Either way, now it's about Four weeks old. You could see the comb coming in. rooster? I know certain breeds have more prominent combs.

I'd wait another week or two. It looks like it's starting to develop the comb but it's not starting to turn pink or red. I had a chick that I got three days old and her wings had already developed quite a bit and her comb came in pretty quickly. She now lays nice brown eggs.

However the feathers on your lil chickie are quite long and thin which is a cockerel trait.

 

[debid]

Pullet. Males look very different and will show signs of it early on. Yours has the brown, fully penciled look of a female.

ETA: feathers on wingtips but fuzzy otherwise was just a couple days old. Your chick is probably closer to 3 weeks than 4.

 

[lilmarie84]

Here are a few pics of my white rocks when they were four weeks old for you to compare to the last picture is around when they were six weeks old

 

[debid]

Here are a few pics of my white rocks when they were four weeks old for you to compare to the last picture is around when they were six weeks oldView attachment 1126317 View attachment 1126318 View attachment 1126319

They're cute but these don't have the patterning.

Here's what a male would look like:

https://www.backyardchickens.com/th...old-partridge-rock-updated-at-6-weeks.687412/

 

[Egghead_Jr]

The Partridge Rock is pullet. No doubt at all.

 

[lilmarie84]

They're cute but these don't have the patterning.

I was trying to show the size of the combs when my white rock pullets were around the same age as the one she has there I thought that they were still the same breed with the only difference being the color of their feathers

 

[JedJackson]

As others have said, she is a pullet. There is a big difference between the plumage of males and females from a early age in certain varieties, partridge being one of them. This just goes to show that comb isn't always the best indicator of sex, especially when the birds are really young.

 

[MamaHen11]

The Partridge Rock is pullet. No doubt at all.

Do you say this for the reasons mentioned above in another post? That it is fully penciled?

 

[MamaHen11]

Pullet. Males look very different and will show signs of it early on. Yours has the brown, fully penciled look of a female.

ETA: feathers on wingtips but fuzzy otherwise was just a couple days old. Your chick is probably closer to 3 weeks than 4.

Thanks for the reply, I'm guesstimating four weeks because the feed store said they get chicks on Thursdays. I picked them up on a Saturday and almost the entire ready of her wing, except right at the shoulder joint, was covered in feathers. So I know that they were hatched at least before the 10th.