We've been bamboozled! Gender help

[Flockincrazy]

I have 20 cockerels I see/use tail feathers for sexing all the time im just saying to me that one seems to be the rooster

 

[AnnaE15]

Here's my pullet and rooster same breed

 

[3KillerBs]

This photo isn't at the best angle, but the hackles and saddle feathers look a little suspicious.

 

[orloffer]

All birds pictured are pullets.



Feather damage looks like feather pecking/plucking to me.

I agree.
I have a Speckled Sussex with missing feathers near her tail as well. We don't have a rooster, and I have never seen the other hens peck her enough to do that. I was thinking she could be molting?

 

[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.

 

[TheOddOneOut]

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

Lol, it is 100% a POL female.
All are females.

 

[RoosterWhisperer]

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?
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I don't see any roo's
It might be a dominance thing, our female ducks do the same thing with eachother

 

[TheOddOneOut]

I have 20 cockerels I see/use tail feathers for sexing all the time im just saying to me that one seems to be the rooster

It definitely isn't. And tail sexing doesn't always work. Plus, I don't even see it.
I had a girl get HUGE wattles before she started laying.
I think that one is laying eggs.

 

[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.

 

[RoostersAreAwesome]

All birds pictured are pullets.



Feather damage looks like feather pecking/plucking to me.

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