Silver Phoenix Chick...I think it is in IT! No joke!

[Larkspur88]

Ok, I have 3 silver phoenixes. I thought I had a male and two pullets. Seemed pretty obvious. One was slightly slower to develop a tail. They are 5 weeks old and he is just now sprouting what looks like a tail.

However, what has me stumped is out of the two pullets one acts VERY male and fights like a male with my various obvious male and the comb has gotten redder and redder and larger and larger even though it looks just like the pullet...with a tail and all.

Here are some two photos front and back.

Girl...IT...Boy

Boy...IT...Girl
You can see my male has a lack of tail and the others have tails.


I'm just rather...befuddled. What is the middle one??? Is it a gender confused pullet? Why is acting like a male and why is the comb so red at 5 weeks if its not and then why does it have a girl tail if it is indeed a boy??

 

[Chickenrandomness]

must be a very agressive pullet! if the tail feathers say yes, than its most likely a yes

 

[Larkspur88]

So it can still be a pullet even with a comb that big and red at 5 weeks even though the sister has no comb development?

 

[banjoejoe4783]

you have 2 roos and one pullet the hens grow the tail first as hen feather faster then roos

 

[banjoejoe4783]

but thise dose not mean that a roo won't grow a tail fast or feather out quik

 

[Larkspur88]

The males grow the same kind of tail then as youngsters then a different tail later? (I've never had them before)

 

[banjoejoe4783]

yes and both hens and roos will have long tails but they are eazy to sex due to early comb growth on the roos

 

[Larkspur88]

Ahhh. Ok. Thanks. Might make sense then. The two with the red combs have been acting like jerks lately which made me start wondering if the one was becoming a male when I thought I had two pullets to start with