Update on my possible cockerel red speckled Sussex. Am I a boy or girl?

[Skyleen13]

So this red speckled Sussex has been going back & forth on cockerel or pullet. It’s coloring is brighter then my other 2 pullets & it’s comb & waddles have been larger & more red then the other 2. They’re now 17 weeks old & their molting their juvenile feathers like crazy. All of them seem to be coming back in rounded but would love a second opinion please.

 

[Rhodebar Lover]

It's a cockerel for sure

 

[Skyleen13]

It's a cockerel for sure

Dam. So Major is a cockerel. Thank you. That’s what I thought it was from the beginning but held out hope.

 

[TheOddOneOut]

Boy

 

[AntiqueB]

He's a boy. I had an SS that I wished was a girl, too.

 

[Skyleen13]

Boy

Thank you

 

[Skyleen13]

He's a boy. I had an SS that I wished was a girl, too.

Dang it. I had a feeling it was a cockerel. Thank you

 

[Miss Lydia]

What are their temperaments like? I have three supposed pullets 5 weeks old and just found out one is cockerel.

 

[AntiqueB]

I have limited experience, of course, as I removed my cockerel when he was about 12 weeks, and my little girl is only a month old.

They're basically the same, temperamentally. Both loved to forage, and especially go for bugs of all sorts. A mouse got into the run when the boy was perhaps 5 weeks, and my BO and EE ran away; he ran right up to it and pecked it. I'm sure he would have killed it if I had let him, and my little girl is the same way.

They both also love to cuddle. My girl comes when I call her. I liked the breed enough to want to try again after I had the mis-sexed one.

 

[Miss Lydia]

Hi @AntiqueB nice to see you over in the chickens. We seem to pass each other over in the duck forum from time to time.

I hope I can keep my lil Cockerel. Really didn't want another Roo until my old one passed