Standard Cochin pullets or cockrels

[FIZBIT]

I got 3 standard cochins. 1 is very tiny compared to the others and has a different tail and feather growth rate. The one in question is the partridge. Or maybe it's a bantam which would explain the size.

 

[FIZBIT]

A few more

 

[NatJ]

I don't know for sure.
If it is just growing slowly, it may catch up later.
If it is a bantam, the size difference will become more obvious as time goes on.
So you might know more in a few months' time.

 

[NatJ]

I just noticed I missed the question in the title, about gender.
None of them look like cockerels to me right now. They might just be too young to be obvious, or they might really be all pullets.

 

[FIZBIT]

I just noticed I missed the question in the title, about gender.
None of them look like cockerels to me right now. They might just be too young to be obvious, or they might really be all pullets.

Thank you. I hope they are all pullets. As I fear 1 of my jersey giants is a cockrel. And I have 1 roo already. If it is I hope they get along and it isn't aggresive towards people as I have 25 laying hens now and would be total of 30 ladies. That's allot for 1 roo. Lol

 

[Painted Calls]

Age? So far they look like pullets, but age will help.

Your Partridge is LF. Look at their legs. LF have legs for days. You can't much see a bantam's legs without digging through the floof.

 

[FIZBIT]

Age? So far they look like pullets, but age will help.

Your Partridge is LF. Look at their legs. LF have legs for days. You can't much see a bantam's legs without digging through the floof.

In the picture they are 6 to 7 weeks. The partridge is half the size of the white and the blue. So it made me think batam or cockrel.

But the only experience I have had where the smallest of the bunch who feathered slower I named Midget ended up being a cockrel was a Buff Orpington.

 

[Painted Calls]

They are young, but I will stick with pullets for now.

I raise bantams and by 6 weeks, cockerels will have a bright red comb and wattles. Pullets are super slow to mature.

LF tend to be slower to mature though. Maybe post updated pictures to this thread in a few weeks?