Sexed chicken has red comb

[5GodsDown]

Hi all

I recently noticed my Blondie here is developing a much brighter red comb and wattles than her sisters of the same age. I asked around in a local chicken Facebook page but they laughed at me and told me it's just a rooster. My chicks were sexed at birth. I know that's not a 100% guarantee, but I've spent a lot of time with them and she just never stood out or did anything cockerel-like..

They are all 4 months old now and I couldn't really recognise them apart except from the pigment on the beak and now of course Blondie's red comb. If she really was a cockerel, wouldn't there already be different tale feathers?

In the first picture she's on the left and the second one in the middle. For me there's hardly any difference...

 

[DobieLover]

She's a pullet. Maybe coming into lay earlier than her flock mate.

 

[featheredplanets]

x2, faster maturing pullet. If she was a cockerel you’d see pointed hackle and saddle feathers and a much larger comb and wattles.

 

[chrissynemetz]

I agree, I believe she's a pullet.

 

[Brady bunch]

Hi all

I recently noticed my Blondie here is developing a much brighter red comb and wattles than her sisters of the same age. I asked around in a local chicken Facebook page but they laughed at me and told me it's just a rooster. My chicks were sexed at birth. I know that's not a 100% guarantee, but I've spent a lot of time with them and she just never stood out or did anything cockerel-like..

They are all 4 months old now and I couldn't really recognise them apart except from the pigment on the beak and now of course Blondie's red comb. If she really was a cockerel, wouldn't there already be different tale feathers?

In the first picture she's on the left and the second one in the middle. For me there's hardly any difference...

We have 2 chickens and they have very red combs and we thought that they were both roosters. But one is now laying eggs.

 

[That_australian_lad]

We have 2 chickens and they have very red combs and we thought that they were both roosters. But one is now laying eggs.

x2

 

[HuffleClaw]

Point of Lay (POL) pullet.

 

[5GodsDown]

Thanks all! I indeed told my girlfriend this week Blondie would probably be laying the first egg