What Gender is my chicken?!? Plez Help!!!

[Raynes_mom11]

One of my Rode Island Reds hatched out this chicken about 4 months ago. It has gotten huge sence then. The only rooster I have is a Barred Rock. So I guess that means this chicken is half RIR and half Barred Rock. I thought it was a rooster but I am not sure. Also all my other hens pick on it but, the rooster really doesn't.

 

[juliechick]

It's a rooster. You can see the hackle feathers getting long and pointed.

 

[tornado8070]

I would say most definately a rooster. By the neck feathers and the comb length and color for such young age.

 

[Moochie]

Rooster!

 

[Illia]

It is a cockerel, because what you did was create sex-linked birds. (males are barred with slight red tingling in their feathers as shown, females are red and black)

 

[Cowgirl71]

Rooster. It's not a sex-link because you used a Barred Rock roo on a Rhode Island Red hen. If you reversed the cross, and used a RIR roo on a BR hen, then you'd get sex-links.

 

[Illia]

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Didn't even see that part.

 

[donrae]

Rooster. I love barred rooster's hackle feathers, they always look kinda lacey to me

 

[Raynes_mom11]

Thank you everyone! I did not intend to breed them one chicken just sat on some eggs before I got to collect them. Does anyone know why the hens pick on him and not my rooster? I thought my rooster would be mean to him if it was a rooster, but he is not the hens are.

 

[juliechick]

The rooster won't be mean to him until he sees him as a threat. When he is mature they will probably fight to determine who's boss. Hens just seem to be meaner to those chicks who are lower on the pecking order.