Sexing Cornish Cross

[Snicketysnoksnaksnik]

I have a roughly 5 month old Cornish cross that I decided to keep alive due to the lack of fat it has. They overall look like a cockerel but act a bit odd.
For two days (maybe a week and a half-2 weeks ago) it was crowing, the crowing never got better and sounds like the crow one of my hen does sometimes.
Combs and wattles grew very slowly, was one of the latest in the batch to grow them. Other chicks in the batch were crowing.
In the two days they did try mount hens but never managed. My cockerel tries to mount them
They haven’t crowed or made any cockerel noises since and completely ignore my hens. I decided to keep my cockerel in a pen for 2 hours with company to see if this chicken crowed or acted like a cockerel and they acted like a hen.

I’m a bit stuck on their sex.

 

[Bigtom Turkey]

Male.

 

[ChickenCanoe]

The hackles, wings and tail feathers scream boy.

 

[Snicketysnoksnaksnik]

Thought so, oh well. Hopefully he won’t be trouble since he’s very large and I have a fair amount of female bantams

 

[ChickenCanoe]

He'll taste just like chicken.

 

[Cloverr39]

Looks like a roo

 

[cluckmecoop7]

Cornish Cross aren't meant to be kept alive and most likely won't have a quality life. It's kind of cruel in my opinion.

 

[Bigtom Turkey]

I have kept CX from butcher, a rooster and three hens, all but one hen is dead now. But they had a fine quality of life. And I have a 14 day old CX golden comet cross chick.

 

[Snicketysnoksnaksnik]

Cornish Cross aren't meant to be kept alive and most likely won't have a quality life. It's kind of cruel in my opinion.

He seems to be fine, acts completely normal. If he had troubles I would put him down but so far he’s had none
I don’t think he’s a pure Cornish cross, he has a similar weight to a chicken his size he was really small as a chick and he doesn’t act the same. I could be incorrect but so far he’s fine
I did try keep another two alive but one died during the night, I still have the other one and she’s quite fat but she doesn’t seem to have any issues.
My chickens have a restricted amount of feed and they free-range, the larger Cornish cross happily chases after insects and such and she is almost continuously walking