*She* crowed. I cried.

[CutieChicken]

I’m going to cry This little cutie crowed the morning! It’s 15 weeks old, and it’s my favorite chicken. It’s the cutest, tiniest, sweetest little chicken I’ve ever seen. I love it to pieces I got it out of the bantam bin along with some others. I already have bantam Cochins and silkies, and *she* is a fraction of their size. So my questions are: (1) It’s 100% a cockerel, right? No crowing pullets?? (A stretch, I know, but I’m desperate), and (2) what kind of chicken is it? I was thinking spangled OEGB, but it doesn’t look like those roosters to me. Please help! Thank you!!

 

[JedJackson]

Females on rare occasions do crow and I think that is what happened here. At 15 weeks this definitely looks like a pullet, not a cockerel.

 

[JedJackson]

Oh, and it is a spangled Old English game. Too lightly built to be a speckled Sussex.

 

[WVduckchick]

Looks like a spangled OEGB pullet to me!

 

[BantyChooks]

Females on rare occasions do crow and I think that is what happened here. At 15 weeks this definitely looks like a pullet, not a cockerel.

x2. She's the spitting image of my Spangled OEGB hen that also crows on occasion.

 

[CutieChicken]

Yay!! I feel a lot better
I have never seen a pullet crow before! On another note, is it normal for the spangled OEGB to be so tiny? She seems very small.

 

[BantyChooks]

Yay!! I feel a lot better
I have never seen a pullet crow before! On another note, is it normal for the spangled OEGB to be so tiny? She seems very small.

Yes. OEGBs in general are very small birds.

 

[ChickyPants]

Dang that is one cute chicken! I am not familiar with bantams but I agree with everyone else that it looks like a pullet to me. There would be pointy saddle feathers if it was a boy and those are clearly rounded.

 

[Kessel23]

Are you sure it was her that crowed? Because that is definitely not a rooster. Really old hens will sometimes start to crow, I have never heard of a crowing pullet before but I am sure it has happened before.

 

[BirdGirl2004]

First off, when I saw this I laughed out loud. This is literally my life every time I get new chicks. My favorite chicks always turn out to be males! But yes, your little chick looks like A PULLET to me! Beautiful little girl, so petite and cute! Looks just like a Spangled OEGB!
Lucky, at least your turned out to be a pullet!