We've been bamboozled! Gender help

[tis4jandb]

Hi all, I posted my lot of 12 about a month ago and the pretty much unanimous decision was they were all pullets. Well, here we are now, they are 5 months old, and there are definite signs of mating going on! I have a few girls that are getting bare spots on their back, and I have seen a few bullseyes on yolks. We have 8 out of 12 that are currently laying. So I did the squat test and these for did not squat for me. I am going to assume one of them is the suspected roo. Can you all help me weed him out?

 

[sourland]

I beg to differ the long feathers that are streaming beside the tail feathers from the back and the comb and waddles are 2x the size of the others

That's fine, but if the OP wants to give that 'rooster' away, I will be glad to take her.

 

[sourland]

All birds pictured are pullets.

So what else would cause damage like that to their backs? I have only seen it from breeding? Am I just misreading the situation? And then just "thought" I saw bullseyes because that is what my brain expected. lol

Feather damage looks like feather pecking/plucking to me.

 

[sourland]

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Here is your culprit

That is 100 % a pullet.

Oh, I didn't know you could use the tail for sexing! How does it work?

In most instances it does not.

 

[JedJackson]

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Here is your culprit

That is absolutely a female. Her tail feathers are just a little scruffy.

 

[Oncoming Storm]

Oh, I didn't know you could use the tail for sexing! How does it work?

The shape of the tail differs between breed but roosters generally start out with an outward tail where pullets go up. As the feathers grow they’ll get longer and pointier giving it they rooster tail. There are some exceptions like the sebright that has a fan tail regardless of gender.

 

[JedJackson]

I beg to differ the long feathers that are streaming beside the tail feathers from the back and the comb and waddles are 2x the size of the others

That's fine, but if the OP wants to give that 'rooster' away, I will be glad to take her.

Me too.

 

[AnnaE15]

Here's my pullet and rooster same breed

 

[JadeFarms]

ALL the chickens in the pictures are female. The one that has the biggest comb is a pullet, her feathers are just ruffled. My hens tail feathers get like that too. She also has hen coloring. I raise roosters and they look very different.

 

[Oncoming Storm]

I vote all hens. At that age there would be pointed saddle feathers and a much larger comb and wattles. All of the questioned birds have round saddle feathers and have reasonable hen sized combs and wattles. Some hens just have bigger combs than others.