The leg line?

[BlindLemonChicken]

Maybe she isn't as cold?

At 16 (ish) weeks it's a bit early for eggs but she looks pretty close.

That was my thought about the comb and waddles as well but they are also bigger than the others. Plus there is the difference in neck feathering. I want it to be a pullet I really do but I am getting that feeling I always get when a pullet turns out to be a cockerel. But I have never had this breed before so I don't have a lot of confidence. My husband went to the feed store with the kid and came home with these little nuggets.

 

[JacinLarkwell]

I have never seen that virility line on my females, only my males

 

[BlindLemonChicken]

I have never seen that virility line on my females, only my males

Thanks for confirming my hunch! I don't keep roosters but I don't recall seeing this on any of my girls either. I also have mostly dark-legged birds so I needed someone with more experience. Thank you!

 

[RoostersAreAwesome]

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That’s a pullet

 

[BlindLemonChicken]

I will update in a few weeks. If its a pullet it should lay soon. If not some male-specific feathers should be more obvious

 

[Mrs. K]

I too think it is a cockerel. But it could go the other way, however, if I have ever thought to myself, 'wait, is that a cockerel?' have I ever gotten a pullet, whereas, I have more than once thought I had a pullet only one day to think...wait? nope I am not getting eggs from that one.

I don't know what the red is called, but years ago, when I first noticed it and wrote here about it, I was told 'that is the sap rising in the spring!"

 

[BlindLemonChicken]

I too think it is a cockerel. But it could go the other way, however, if I have ever thought to myself, 'wait, is that a cockerel?' have I ever gotten a pullet, whereas, I have more than once thought I had a pullet only one day to think...wait? nope I am not getting eggs from that one.

I don't know what the red is called, but years ago, when I first noticed it and wrote here about it, I was told 'that is the sap rising in the spring!"

If it is a cockerel he has a home and he has three weeks to let me know haha

 

[Mother-Hen-Michele]

Boy or girl, that is a beautiful baby Congratulations

 

[BlindLemonChicken]

I thought I should update this because she laid an egg today! I know it was her because she has been squatting for me when I go to the run. So that settles that lol. Still not sure what was up with that virility line on her leg but there are no male-specific feathers and the egg settles it.

 

[Mother-Hen-Michele]

She is so pretty

Glad it worked out.