Silver laced- Hen or roo

[stargzr87]

Hatched at the end of March.

Is this pretty baby a hen or a roo?

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[stargzr87]

 

[azygous]

Cockerel. A young roo.

 

[greenfeathers]

I vote pullet.

 

[greenfeathers]

Cockerel. A young roo.

I'm new to this. I posted at the same time as you. I had both SLW pullets and cockerels out of my mix of breeds this year and both cockerels didn't lace that evenly. That's why I thought pullet.

 

[ChickenFarmer03]

Hi! I have two Silver Laced Wyandottes and they are both hens. I asked this same question when I noticed only one of mine had a rose comb. It turns out that the hen with the single comb was a "hatchery mistake". Sometimes a SLW hen will end up with a single comb. Yours looks like a pullet to me. She looks very similar to my hen. ~ChickenFarmer03

 

[azygous]

SLW pullets have less contrasting colors. The males are deeper black and contrasting white lacing. On pullets, the patterns are less contrasting until quite a bit later, making one wonder where the lacing is.

Also, the comb is definitely redder than the pullet's.

 

[greenfeathers]

I'm trying to learn not offend.

Here are two of my 3. The two boys went to freezer camp a few weeks back. These pics were taken at roughly the same age as OP. The cockerel was crowing by then and quite well. In fact I still miss his crow as the two boys I kept (Bhrama and Jersey Giant) still aren't as loud and they're almost 6 months. The pullet looks like the OP's. Of course she's much redder now and will hopefully give me an egg any day now!

 

[donrae]

I'm thinking cockerel, but can we get a profile picture?

 

[drumstick diva]

I'm thinking cockerel