Silver Laced Wyandotte - Pullet or Roo?

[donrae]

I can't really tell on the other bird, can you get a better pic? and how old?

 

[summerb123]

Thank you so much to all those who replied saying they believed it was a rooster, I'm very grateful for your input. Thank you also to @donrae and @mymilliefleur who aren't completely sure... I hope this photo helps. You may well (justifiably!) question why I purchased this bird when there is clearly some doubt - I don't know why either! What's done is done. All I can say is that some of the dozen or so similar age SLWs had redder faces, some had pink. This was one of the pinker ones but it's redder than it was. I let him settle down for a week or so, then introduced him to a trio of similar age pullets including another SLW. He immediately attacked her and scared the wits out of her. Her comb and face are pale and much smaller. I moved him in with my older girls, though there is also a lavender araucana (photo below) who I suspect i s going to be a roo. The girls just push him out of the way but the previously peaceful araucana chases him incessantly round the yard. I'm getting the feeling this is rooster behaviour from both of these birds. What do you think? Thank you in advance.





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cockerel

 

[Sunnyducks]

@donrae Please forgive me for disappearing into the ether just when you had offered to help sex the lavender araucana. I am so sorry - we've had a drama; he disappeared sometime during the hour before I locked them in for the night. I feared a predator - but what? I was in the yard at the time, so I could rule out everything except a cat, or maybe a hawk though I'd heard nothing and seen nothing. But he was gone. I searched, but after two nights I was sure that was it. Then on day 3 a neighbour called... an elderly lady further up the road had found a chicken in her garden.... yes, a happy ending! I've since searched, and found a 6 inch gap at the end of the fence. He has to have squeezed through, as his wings are clipped and he can't get enough lift to get over the fence. He must have crossed the garden, walked down the drive and three doors up the road. Thankfully the elderly lady has a fishpond (and the only house on the block with no dog!), so he'd had water but he was starving, came running to me as fast as his little legs could carry him. No, not pleased to see me, but pleased to see the bowl I use at night to give them their titbits! I've made a new posting about the araucana and some others that I'm not sure about. Thank you so much for your help

 

[donrae]

No problem. I just saw your other thread, didn't realize it was the same bird

 

[LynnPG]

Roo