Special chick...please be a pullet! *New Pics!*

[luckychickmom]

This is Lucky, who is really a little miracle chick! "She" is 5 weeks old, and at 2 days old, she survived a brooder fire caused by a clamp-on brooder lamp that fell into the brooder. She was the only surviving chick out of 12. As you can see in one of the pics, she lost the first digits of several of her toes, but this didn't slow her down! She has the best personality, which I am choosing to attribute to our unusual bonding time (lots of topical medications!), instead of the possibility that "she" is a fearless roo! So, two questions...
1) Is this a RIR? She was bought as a buff orpington (not!!), and the last opinions that I got suggested RIR, New Hampshire, or Production Red. Any ideas now that she has more coloration?
2) Pullet or roo? I really need for this chick to be a pullet. We can't have a roo, and I promised her a life of luxury (she earned it!)

 

[TXmom]

My guess is pullet.

What about under her beak...do you see any little red wattle "buds" beginning to form? If so, then maybe a roo, but from what I can tell by the comb and feathering, she looks girlish.

 

[easttxchick]

Looks like a Production Red pullet.

So glad she made it!

 

[Critter Crazed]

I'd guess pullet too but please don't be disappointed if I'm wrong!

 

[solarquail]

my guess is pullet too.

 

[WingingIt]

'She' looks like my red sex links did when they were feathering out, so that's my guess. So far I think she's a she.

 

[luckychickmom]

Thanks to all of you for helping out! Lucky has very slight wattles under the beak, and I just started to notice some very faint pink in the comb today. This is what she survived...

This is the more current, much smarter set-up! Amazing what experience teaches!

 

[easttxchick]

OK, your poor baby survived that terrible fire so if we're all wrong and it turns out to be a rooster-you MUST dress him up in a hen costume and keep him anyway!

 

[Domestic_goddess]

I'm 100% positive it's a RIR, I have 3 that look exactly like that. I'm crossing my fingers it's a pullet for you!

 

[luckychickmom]

I'm hoping that if it's a roo, it's also mute!! I could keep a mute roo! However, I'd much rather have a nice, egg-laying pullet. I know a firefighter who will get the first egg!