Welsummer Boy or Girl - More Photos....

[Chickndaddy]

Look at the pic of the 13 week old pullet here

http://www.feathersite.com/Poultry/CGP/Wels/BRKWelsummers.html

Sage's comb has developed way past hers.

 

[SeaChick]

Yeah, I am totally confused, too. The breast feathers say pullet but the comb really says cockerel.....

Here are the 2 pullets we raised, at about that age, maybe 6, 6.5 weeks, for comb comparison. The one we kept is almost 12 weeks now and her comb still isn't much bigger than in these pics:

Please keep us updated, I'm very interested in this. But I hate so say it, if I had to bet $$ I would say cockerel. Don't give him away (if that's what you would have to do) until he crows, though..... hopefully I am wrong!

 

[K7 Menagerie]

As long as he is the only roo (I only have 6 chicks.....for now), he's a keeper.

 

[mbleily]

I was told here that the roos start getting dark on the chest when the girls start getting the redish color. so from that I would say hen but that is a big comb for that age I think for a hen. Soooooo

 

[lady chicken whisperer]

Def a pullet, looks just like the one i have right now.

I really wish people would stop judging by the combs, its very unreliable actually. Trust me i have some birds that you would swear were roos because they actually have bigger combs than my roos, but theyre all girlies.

 

[EweSheep]

All girls to me! Because the boys wings would be much darker and the chest feathers would have been black.

 

[K7 Menagerie]

I was really hoping pullet - not that I have anything against a roo, I just wasn't wanting one quite yet. Although.......it would be nice to have something to annoy my next door neighbor with, since his turkey does a great job of annoying us........just kidding.......

 

[ticks]

My 7.5 week old Wellie has a decent sized comb as well