Welsummer not confirming

[RavenousAK]

I got a sexed Welsummer day old chick. Had the correct head markings for a pullet & of all the birds to get wrong it never occurred to me it would be a Wellie.

3 weeks comb got huge & wattles started coming in. Has some black in the feathers but not like what everyone says roosters get. I’m 99% sure it’s a roo … but it had standard girl markings as a hatchling.

Attached are pics from 3 & 7 weeks. Any chance it’s a girl with a huge red comb? :/

 

[sourland]

Perhaps not a Welsummer, but it is a cockerel.

 

[BlindLemonChicken]

Some kind of cockerel but not a Welsummer

 

[RavenousAK]

I only ordered 6 chicks. A Whiting True Blue (black with faint lacing), Whiting True Green (cream colored with some darker spots... definitely a cockerel), Couvacures (black with an Elvis hairdo), Cream Legbar (grey with the poof) and a silver laced wyandotte (is not developing the lacing the way it should and I suspect it might be yet another a cockerel)... Do you really think they gave me the wrong breed all together?
I am pretty miffed about potentially half being male :/

Pics of the other suspected mis-gendered

 

[BlindLemonChicken]

At that age the two with the big combs are definitely cockerels. Not sure on the breeds as I’ve never had some of those. If the last one is the Wyandotte I wouldn’t worry about that one quite yet. Where did you order them from?

 

[Finnie]

Wow that’s pretty bad luck to order 6 pullets and get 3 cockerels! (Your SLW does look like a boy to me.)

 

[Jener8or]

Possibly a Partridge Rock cockerel. I'm thinking the mottling might molt out (from the 1st post).

Not sure I can see the SLW well enough to give a good guess. Rose combs seem to pink up early and I like to see pictures of how they are feathering out.

ETA: Yes, I agree, bad luck on those ones! I concur on the sex of those what the others have said for 2nd post (two outer are for sure and SLW definitely questionable.)

 

[Pigeony]

Possibly a Partridge Rock cockerel. I'm thinking the mottling might molt out (from the 1st post).

Not sure I can see the SLW well enough to give a good guess. Rose combs seem to pink up early and I like to see pictures of how they are feathering out.

ETA: Yes, I agree, bad luck on those ones! I concur on the sex of those what the others have said for 2nd post (two outer are for sure and SLW definitely questionable.)

i also agree

 

[RavenousAK]

At that age the two with the big combs are definitely cockerels. Not sure on the breeds as I’ve never had some of those. If the last one is the Wyandotte I wouldn’t worry about that one quite yet. Where did you order them from?

McMurray. It has been 6-7 years since I ordered and I am kind of shocked.

 

[RavenousAK]

Wow that’s pretty bad luck to order 6 pullets and get 3 cockerels! (Your SLW does look like a boy to me.)

I keep hoping I am being paranoid about the SLW but it also has almost no lacing at 8 weeks. McMurray keeps saying they are all too young... those 1st two are the roosteriest roosters who have ever rostered :/